144 Quotes About Impatience

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

The rock’s victory against the river is temporary.

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

They were supposed to wait an hour or so before handling the plates, but, always impulsive, Alice couldn't help herself. She snuck one into her palm, knowing that if she was caught her aunt would lecture her about how Patience and Time were the lost twin sisters of the other muses, the extra ones no one ever talks about (as compared to the more showy ones like Terpsichore and Urania).

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Impatience is racing at misery full speed.

Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.

It takes patience to nurture patience.