Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old impatient quotes, impatient sayings, and impatient proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.Gerald Jampolsky
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The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.Baltasar Gracian
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Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.Richelle E. Goodrich
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When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.Laura Teresa Marquez
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Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.M.T. Bass
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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
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Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.Bryant McGill
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We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.Jessica Khoury
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Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!Garrison Wynn
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Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!Israelmore Ayivor
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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
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Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.Haresh Sippy
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We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn't serve us so well.Boniface Sagini
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Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.Dean Koontz
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.Dante Alighieri
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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
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Impatience is racing at misery full speed.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.Guy Kawasaki
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When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.Hannah Hurnard
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You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?Richard Adams
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Impatience is a virtue.Ursula Burns
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Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better.Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.Pope Francis
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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.Idries Shah
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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
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Impatience kills quickly.Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de la Fontaine
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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
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Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.James Richardson
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Impatience never commanded success.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.Greg Gutfeld
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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
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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
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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.William Gurnall
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The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.Ashay Abbhi
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.Marianne Moore
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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
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Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. Janette Oke
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An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.Vladimir Kramnik
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.Charles Caleb Colton
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Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!Israelmore Ayivor
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By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done.Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The biggest pitfall as you make your way through life is impatience. Remember that being impatient is simply a way of punishing yourself. It creates stress, dissatisfaction, and fear.Susan Jeffers
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What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.Steve Maraboli
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Other people can't cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don't make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.Surya Das
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People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.Rohit Sharma