Impatient Sayings and Quotes

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
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. Baltasar Gracian
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
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
Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth. M.T. Bass
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
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, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value. Bryant McGill
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
Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down! Garrison Wynn
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
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 may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation. Haresh Sippy
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
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
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante Alighieri
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 is racing at misery full speed. Richelle E. Goodrich
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. Guy Kawasaki
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
You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow? Richard Adams
Impatience is a virtue. Ursula Burns
Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential. Lailah Gifty Akita
Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly. Pope Francis
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
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. Idries Shah
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
Impatience kills quickly. Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de la Fontaine
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
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand. James Richardson
Impatience never commanded success. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you. Greg Gutfeld
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
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
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial. William Gurnall
The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become. Ashay Abbhi
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. Marianne Moore
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
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.  Janette Oke
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person. Vladimir Kramnik
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton
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
By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. Steve Maraboli
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
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