Impatience Quotes - Page 2

• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Intuition, Logic, Instinct

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Blood, Sorrow, Age

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• Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.

  Watchman Nee

  Trying, Different, Flesh

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.203, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Thinking, Arrogance

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• My worst quality is impatience.

  Emma Thompson

  Quality, Worst

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Procrastination, Practice, Hatred

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

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• We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.

  John Whisenant

  Moving, Impatient

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Golfers

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• In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

  Roger Federer

  Lockers, Rooms, Impatient

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• I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Holmes, Should

  1915 The Valley of Fear, ch.1.

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• A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Suffering, Rebel

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• Impatience never commanded success.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Self Esteem, Believe

  "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.

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• ... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Lonely, Business

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• The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Giving, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  William Hazlitt

  Sacrifice, Long, Matter

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Men, Thinking, Tears

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• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Voice, Hands

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Rejection, Impatient, Tendencies

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Humility, Law, Profound

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Faith, Patience

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• Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Done, Patience Is A Virtue, Patience Virtue

  Chelsea Clinton (2015). “It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!”, p.264, Penguin

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• Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

  Louis XIV

  Victory, Guarantees, Defeat

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