Impatience Quotes

• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• A human being is all hope and impatience.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Humans, Human Beings

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• Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

  Janette Oke

  Wise, People, Causes

  Janette Oke (1990). “Father of My Heart”, Bethany House Pub

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Patience, Work

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• Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

  Immanuel Kant

  Strong, Weakness, Weak

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• Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Patience, Art, Children

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• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

  James Keller

  Wall, Adversity, Cells

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• Be patient with your impatience.

  Roy Masters

  Patient, Be Patient

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• God is never late, we're just impatient.

  LeCrae

  God, Christian, Rapper

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• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  George Eliot

  People, Bees, Impatient

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• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

  Marianne Moore

  Independence, Bondage, Mark

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.80, Macmillan

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• The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Greed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strength, Patience, Support

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• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Haste, Too Much

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

  Robert Updegraff

  Successful, Unfinished Business, Might

  Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

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• I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

  John Calvin

  Struggle, Effort, Vices

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• There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Joseph Hall (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.396

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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  Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

  Jean Paul

  Trying, Doe, Speed

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• One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

  Rodney Collin

  Waiting, Impatient, Responsible

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• Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

  Franz Kafka

  Paradise, Return, Driven

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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