Impatience Quotes

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

He who has the greatest power put into his hands will only become the more impatient of any restraint in the use of it.

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

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

I wish I had more patience.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I just get grumpy with bad behaviour.

I am sick of answering questions about the fucking peace process.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.