Top 270 Impatience Quotes & Sayings

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

A human being is all hope and impatience.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

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.

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.

Impatience is a virtue.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

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.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

My worst quality is impatience.

Be patient with your impatience.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Impatience never commanded success.

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

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

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.