Impatience Quotes

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

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.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

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.

I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound as it is dangerous – from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

My worst quality is impatience.

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

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

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

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

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