Top 25 Haste Quotes of 144 - Page 3

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Benjamin Franklin

Haste, Speed, Reckless

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Alphonse Karr

Haste, Essentials, Ingredients

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Statius

Haste, Delay, Action

Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

Robert Herrick

Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Laozi

Taoism, Haste, Rulers

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Jonathan Edwards

Mountain, Behind You, Haste

Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.413, Hendrickson Publishers

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley

Wisdom, Haste, Hurrying

Letter to a member of the Society. 10 December 1777, in 'Select Letters' (1837)

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Chilon of Sparta

Good Life, Haste, Too Much

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

William Godwin

Education, Haste, Forget

William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.69

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.

Walter Russell

Secret, Haste, Waste

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Vladimir Lenin

Years, Two, Haste

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

Robert Breault

Regret, Taken, Haste

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Rajneesh

Knowing, People, Haste

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Muhammad Ali

Haste, Fruit, Stumbling

Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

Haste, Blind, Blindness

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure

Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Good and quickly seldom meet.

George Herbert

Haste

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Aeschylus

Work, Men, Haste

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

William Shakespeare

Fire, Haste, Weak

William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.27

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

William Penn

Haste, Caution

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Will Durant

Haste, Action, Foresight

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.

Wallace D. Wattles

Worry, Perfect, Haste

Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.69, e-artnow

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Vincent de Paul

Haste, Adages, Ifs

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

Thomas Merton

Integrity, Artist, Haste

Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.101, Shambhala Publications