Impatience Quotes

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Robert Bresson

Um..." I mumbled, "We wait.""What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight?" He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.

Grace Fiorre

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

Ashay Abbhi

I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

Andre Agassi

When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")

Erik Pevernagie

Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

Flora Kidd

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

A.B. Shepherd

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.

Maija Haavisto

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

Lewis Carroll

Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of your feet to your heels. To settle your thoughts on now, to enjoy the journey, to give something or someone time to grow.

Ron Brackin

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Richard Adams

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .

Zadie Smith

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.

Natasha Tsakos

Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

John Day

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Jessica Khoury

Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.

Haresh Sippy

Impatience is racing at misery full speed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I was not born to wait.

Gwenda Bond

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

Kaiden Blake

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

M.T. Bass

Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.

Unarine Ramaru

When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Heather Choate Davis

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall always miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall also miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

W.H. Auden

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT".

Israelmore Ayivor

Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!

Israelmore Ayivor

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

Daphne du Maurier

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Megan Chance

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

Dean Koontz

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.

Bryant McGill

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

Krishna Udayasankar

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

Trevor D. Richardson

pause, ponder,consult, think through it well, understand the consequence, know the benefit and take a second look at it again for it takes a little mistake to cause a big had I know with a deep regret

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.

Criss Jami

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Martin Luther

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Harold Bloom

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

Israelmore Ayivor

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

Julien Smith

We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.

Boniface Sagini

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

Ahmed Mostafa

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Steve Maraboli

Impatience kills quickly.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

Edwidge Danticat

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,

Allen Ginsberg

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Théophile Gautier

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante Alighieri

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