Haste Quotes

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. (Horatio Nelson)
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. View quote
Livy
Haste in every business brings failure. View quote
Herodotus
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs. View quote
Silius Italicus
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
William Congreve
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. View quote
Oliver Herford
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. View quote
Thomas Shadwell
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
Make haste cautiously. View quote
Augustus
Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste. View quote
Saadi
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. View quote
John Dryden
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. View quote
Tacitus
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art. View quote
André Malraux
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. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. (William Godwin)
Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. View quote
Lucan
I am always in haste, but never in a hurry. View quote
John Wesley
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. View quote
Maria Mitchell
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II