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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. -- Marianne Moore
Impatience never commanded success. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Impatience is a virtue. -- Ursula Burns
My worst quality is impatience. -- Emma Thompson
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. -- Guy Kawasaki
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. -- Rita Mae Brown
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. -- Janette Oke
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. -- Franz Kafka
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. -- W. H. Auden
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. -- Edward Sapir
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. -- Bryan Adams
Impatience kills quickly. -- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Impatience for victory guarantees defeat -- Louis XIV
Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. -- David Eddings
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand. -- James Richardson
Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down! -- Garrison Wynn
One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. -- Susan Jeffers
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. -- Isobelle Carmody
Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side. -- Mike Dooley
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure. -- Dalai Lama
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. -- Jeremy Taylor
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now. -- David Steindl-Rast
Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable. -- Chris Bradford
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be. -- Walter Savage Landor
Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted. -- Paul Ekman
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light -- Richard Wilbur
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. -- Edmund Burke
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return. -- Franz Kafka
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. -- Tony Kushner
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. -- Peter Jackson
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. -- Franz Kafka
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. -- Richard Hammond
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. -- Michel de Montaigne
I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated. -- Brant Daugherty
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. -- Eric Alterman
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. -- Samuel Johnson
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. -- Jeremy Taylor
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors. -- Hans Blix
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. -- Margot Asquith
Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely. -- Watchman Nee
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. -- Robert Updegraff
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. -- Jimmy Breslin
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible. -- Rodney Collin
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint. -- Orhan Pamuk
The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection. -- Henry B. Eyring
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us. -- Walter Savage Landor
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. -- James Keller
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared. -- Teju Cole
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.' -- James Keller
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream. -- Paul Hawken
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. -- Hugh Laurie
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. -- Gary Zukav
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say, 'Yeah, yeah, just tell me: is it good for you or bad for you?' Consequently, I think, I was always afraid to indulge in the time that you need to tell a joke, very nervous about anything that constituted an Act II. -- Patricia Marx
Be patient with your impatience. -- Roy Masters
Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. -- Erik Naggum
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A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage. -- Pete Rose
A human being is all hope and impatience. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience. -- Immanuel Kant
Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience. -- T. B. Joshua
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. -- Jim Rohn
Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done. -- Chelsea Clinton
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief. -- Jackie Pullinger
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience. -- Walter Russell
Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances. -- Mason Cooley
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone. -- Erich Maria Remarque
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. -- George Horne
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience -- Phil Harding
the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all. -- L. T. Meade
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. -- May Sarton
Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well. -- Jeb Bush
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. -- Michel de Montaigne
The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience. -- Susan Jeffers
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. -- Baltasar Gracian
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. -- Allan Lokos
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong. -- Immanuel Kant
Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved. -- Dalai Lama
Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words." -- James Joyce
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. -- Mother Teresa
The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure. -- Samael Aun Weor
My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon. -- S.A. Tawks
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. -- Dalai Lama
O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace. -- Ally Carter
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. -- Jean Toomer
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures. -- Walter Zettl
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love. -- Wayne Dyer
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance. -- Peter Jackson
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. -- Ian Mcewan
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well. -- Seneca the Younger
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. -- Larry Wall
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. -- Jonathan Swift
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection -- Michelangelo
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation." -- Steve Maraboli
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. -- Steve Maraboli
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear. -- Guy Finley
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. -- Tony Bishop
Give me your wrists, Alayna. I sense your impatience, and I know exactly where you intend for those hands to go. -- Scarlet Wolfe
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. -- William Feather
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience. -- St. Catherine of Siena
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength. -- Jim Rohn
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. -- Eknath Easwaran
Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows. -- Karl Popper
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us. -- Mason Cooley

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