Impatience Quotes - page 4

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, And a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. (Samuel Johnson)
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There are periods in the history of the world when the unseen Power that guides its destinies seems to be filled with a consuming passion for change and a strong impatience of the old. The Great Mother, the Adya Shakti, has resolved to take the nations into Her hand and shape them anew. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
For modern man, ... pride reveals itself in impatience, which is an unwillingness to bear the pain of discipline. ... In effect his becomes a deification of his own will; man is not making himself like a god but is taking himself as he is and putting himself in the place of God. View quote
Richard Weaver
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. View quote
Hans Blix
He wasn't just a genius, he had the genius's impatience with the whole idea of doing something again. He reinvented an art form, exhausted its possibilities, and just left it. There is always something frightening about that degree of inventiveness... He didn't lose his powers. He just lost interest in proving that he possessed them. View quote
Clive James
We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. View quote
Mother Teresa
I know well enough, from my own experience, the historical ebb and flow. They are governed by their own laws. Mere impatience will not expedite their change. View quote
Leon Trotsky
A human being is all hope and impatience. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late. (Jane Austen)
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance. View quote
Peter Jackson
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. View quote
Guy Kawasaki
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. View quote
George Horne
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear. View quote
Guy Finley
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand. View quote
James Richardson
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. View quote
Jeremy Taylor
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all obedience; And so am I for Phebe. (William Shakespeare)
His work is full of the signs of those two cardinal sins from which (as Kafka pointed out) all the others spring: impatience and laziness. The work of every artist is conditioned by the way in which he resists or yields to these temptations. View quote
Patrick Swift
Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. View quote
Franz Kafka
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait and both without impatience they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
This Court, limited in function in accordance with that premise, does not serve its high purpose when it exceeds its authority, even to satisfy justified impatience with the slow workings of the political process. For when, in the name of constitutional interpretation, the Court adds something to the Constitution that was deliberately excluded from it, the Court, in reality, substitutes its view of what should be so for the amending process. View quote
John Marshall Harlan II