Quotes About Impatience

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.

It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10

Are we there yet?" I asked Joshua. "No," Joshua said. "Are we there yet?" I said. "No." "Are we there yet?" "No." "Are we there yet?" "Yes," Joshua said. "Stop the car.

How long do you think it will take them to get a transport here?" I asked. "Are you kidding?" Dad said. "If they didn't send for one the second I was done talking to them, I'll eat my hat." "You don't wear a hat," I said. "I will buy a hat and eat it, then," Dad said.

When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.

Lennie begged, Le's do it now. Le's get that place now. Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

If life is a highway, I wish someone would finish with construction already. I'm tired of the detours, road blocks and pot holes.

Life is way too short to safely remove a USB.

No. Standing as close to me as you possibly can, will not make the line move faster.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

I am not going to wait around all day, waiting for you to tell me the same thing. Even though I might feel special for those few seconds. What about the other 24hours I feel alone?

I had allowed myself to murmur a few impatient and hurtful words, which, I had sensed from the way her face contracted, had struck home, had wounded her; it was I whom they were lacerating, now that the consolation of a thousand kisses was forever impossible.

For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture,