144 Quotes About Impatience

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

He wondered, with some annoyance, whether he would finally learn what he wanted to know, or if he would have in the end to content himself with what he already knew. He felt that, at his age, patience was ceasing to be a virtue and was becoming a luxury he could less and less afford.

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

No one has ever envied someone for their impatience or the intensity of their anger.

Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.