Aesop Quotes

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

Too great haste leads us to error.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.