Haste quotes
144 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself."
"Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities."
"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"
"What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast."
"The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out."
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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
"Take time for all things."
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
"Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste."
"Too great haste leads us to error."
"Reckless haste makes poor speed."
"We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us."
"I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow"
"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
"Stillness is the ruler of haste."
"Stumbling is the fruit of haste."
"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
"Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws."
"If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly."
"Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity."
"A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste."
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
"The more haste, ever the worst speed."
"My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day."
