Impatient Quotes

• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

  William Ellery Channing

  Smile, Patience, Ignorance

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• If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.71, Macmillan

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• A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

  James Levine

  Change, People, Pace

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• Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

  T. B. Joshua

  Mistake, Impatience, Happens

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• To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hooked

  Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane V. Cirincione (1992). “Wake-Up Calls”, Hay House Incorporated

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• When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

  George Carlin

  Wonder, Genuine, Havens

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Pain, Revenge

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Doors, Enemy

  Idries Shah (1997). “The Commanding Self”, p.81, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

  Surya Das

  Patience, Attachment, People

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• There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

  George Mason

  Passion, Men, Mind

  George Mason's letter to the Committee of Merchants in London, June 6, 1766.

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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, Impatience, Tendencies

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• We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

  Pope Francis

  Anxious, Whole, Whole Picture

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• Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

  Peter Damian

  Faith, Inspiration, Shining

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• Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

  Robin Cousins

  Athlete, Process, Enjoy

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• An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Play, Patient Person, Persons

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.

  Joseph Butler

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Joseph Butler (1798). “The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, ... in the Year MDCCLI. By Joseph Butler, ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Preface, ... by Samuel Halifax, ...”, p.228

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

  Donald Glover

  Stars, Looks, Want

  "Donald Glover". A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I am a very impatient director.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors

  "Steven Spielberg Tempts the Fates With His Animated 'Tintin'". Interview with Matt McDaniel, www.yahoo.com. December 20, 2011.

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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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• Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

  Jay Kay

  Waiting, Planets, Persons

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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, Impatience, Responsible

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• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Ambition

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• Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

  David Coverdale

  Situation

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