Quotes and Sayings about Impatience
"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
(Related: Action, Impatience, Military, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Will)
"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
(Related: Impatience, Interest, Man, News, Profit, Public, Tears)
"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Impatience, Intuition, Logic)
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Strength, Impatience, Ruin, Support, Weakness)
"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
- Guy Kawasaki
(Related: Art, Impatience)
"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
(Related: Adversity, Impatience, London, Sentiment, Spirits, Years)
"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Independence, Impatience)
"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
(Related: Desire, Impatience, Lies)
"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
(Related: Fortune, Impatience, Man, Poor)
"My worst quality is impatience."
- Emma Thompson
(Related: Quality, Impatience)
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Impatience, Laziness)