23 quotes found
“The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself ...”
“Impatience kills quickly.”
“We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in ...”
“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
“Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.”
“When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.”
“Dont be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comforting shade just because you see its present fruitlessness. Just sit under it and endure the scorchi...”
“Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.”
“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.”
“Impatience is racing at misery full speed.”
“Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.”
“Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.”
“You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?”
“Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of you...”
“I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.”
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, its not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to ...”
“Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.”
“Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?”
“Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.”
“The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.”
