Quotes About Impatience

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

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

I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

She always read the end of a book first because she couldn't wait to find out how things would turn out.

All dressed up, with nowhere to go.

It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

The impatient leader is likely to want to Redream the Dream and Recapture the Venture Spirit and get the renewal-generating organizational infrastructure in place and working tomorrow!

but the man had never learned to wait, he was permanently in a hurry. when, in april, he planted heads of mignonette or morning glory in the china pots in his living room, he would go and pull their leaves each morning to make them grow faster. with such an eccentric, the only thing to do was to obey.

exhibited the mannerisms of a nervous man. He had glanced around too frequently in the waiting area, had drummed his fingers on the bench, had tapped the boarding pass on his knee, had eyed every fellow passenger in the tree-shaded square.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Someone once figured out that the average American will spend a cumulative six months of her life waiting for the light to change.

Satirists are merely impatient obituary writers.

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing

Oh my god will you shut the front door already!