144 Quotes About Impatience

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

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.

Impatience often makes us patients.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Sometimes our first questions are a product of our impulse rather than an expression of our thoughts.

We cannot define the true meaning of the word "patience" without becoming impatient ourselves.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better