Top 25 Haste Quotes of 144

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Inspirational, Book, Haste Makes Waste

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking, Haste, Leisure

Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

Don't judge a book by its cover

George Eliot

Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

Haste, Delay, Truth Is

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Dallas Willard

Loneliness, Solitude, Haste

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Milarepa

Haste, Awareness, Arrivals

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quality, Haste, Heat

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Haste, Wonder, Spoil

"The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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

Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome

Catholic, Devil, Haste

Keep your heart with a chaste mind

Catherine of Aragon

Heart, Mind, Chaste

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

Time, Hate, Haste Makes Waste

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Michelangelo

Chaste, Knows, Do You Know

Kirsten Bradbury, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2001). “Essential Michelangelo”

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Saadi

Haste, Waste

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus

Business, Failure, Haste

"The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.

The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

Zachary Taylor

Haste, Want, Conservative

Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

Walt Whitman

Promise, Environmental, Haste

'To the sayers of words' 2

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Max Ehrmann

Peace, Silence, Haste

Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

Take time for all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Haste Makes Waste, Haste, Take Time

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Moliere

Errors, Haste, Literature

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Lord Byron

Chastity, Chaste, Amorous

Make haste cautiously.

Augustus

Latin, Haste

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

Hands, Haste, Legs

Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.422, Cambridge University Press