Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience."
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Impatience
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dennis Green
American Football Coach
"Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience."
Jean Toomer
Poet, Novelist
"Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily."
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"My worst quality is impatience."
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"To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well."
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"I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently."
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"Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience."
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"Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience."
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"O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me."
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"Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love."
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"Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards."
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"We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience."
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"I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’"
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