Hasty Actions Quotes

Haste is a poor counselor

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.

"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said."You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?""But you don't even have my phone number," he said."I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other."

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

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.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.