Home / Topics / Impatient Quotes

Impatient Quotes

Browse 384 quotes about Impatient.

Impatient Quotes

“Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.”

Children Littles Parent Dog Ought Devil Doctrine Bites Weeping Impatient Apostles Sects

Book:Commentary on Galatians

Source: Commentary on Galatians

“I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.”

Thinking Two Games Waiting Cost Shots Rounds Corny Impatient Bane

Author:Brett Hull

“Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.”

Sometimes Whole Desire Found Events Satisfaction Impatient

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.”

Thinking Giving Children Country Sometimes Hard Care Angry Take Care Decent Impatient Outrageous

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.”

Happens Mistake Impatient Impatience Learning From Mistakes

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.”

Waiting Impatient

Author:Fabolous

“The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.”

Wealth Patient Mechanism Efficient Impatient

Author:Warren Buffett

“I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.”

Brain Angry Swear Frustrated Impatient

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.”

Ifs Love Feels Sometimes Feelings Care Easy Stupid Comfortable Foolish Wicked Dislike Love Someone Impatient

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.”

May God Seems Christian Religious Forget Effort Rewards Righteousness Never Forget Impatient Overdue

Author:David Jeremiah

“Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.”

Source: The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”

States Found Watches Practice Authority Contradiction Association Submit Unlimited Offended Maxims Impatient Bachelors Tenacious Negligence Morose

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.”

Humans Soul Purpose Difficult Levels Bears Higher Honor Commitment Treats Ill Despite Human Life Impatient Inappropriate Higher Level Outburst Ill Tempered

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.”

Imagination Struggle Possibility Survival Mere Recognition Radical Impatient Struggle For Survival

Author:Adrienne Rich

“People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.”

People Want Ideas Happens Individual Situation Circumstances No Idea Surround Impatient

Author:Rohit Sharma

“To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.”

Feelings Night Bits Morning Fine Wake Up Pity Impatient Careless Morrow Fine Things

Author:Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“Old people are often impatient, but for what?”

People Old People Impatient

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.”

Men Enemy Progress Doors Impatient Slam

Book:The Commanding Self

Source: The Commanding Self

“She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good.”

Able Simple Goodness Intellectual Conclusion Impatient Brilliance

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.”

People Lays Faults Endure Impatient

Book:Novels and Tales by Goethe

Source: Novels and Tales by Goethe

“The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.”

Wisdom Wise Increase Folly Impatient Impatience

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.”

Long Light Tree Promise Gold Branches Autumn Limbs Occasional Impatient Glowing Crimson Vistas Maple

Author:Hal Borland

“I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.”

Duty Newspapers Usual Impatient

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.”

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.”

Feelings Happens Things Happen Impatient

Author:John Cale

“Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.”

World Way Book Reality Found Literature Honest Frank Harsh Diaries Impatient Literal Frivolous Harsh Reality Not Honest

Author:Alexandra Fuller

“I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.”

Want Looks Able Stars Impatient

Author:Donald Glover

“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.”

Needs Believe Done Impatient

Author:Jeff Goodell

“I'm impatient sometimes.”

Sometimes Impatient

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.”

Situation Impatient

Author:David Coverdale

“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”

Writing Kind Done Life Is Too Much Logic Instinct Vague Interiors Distrust Impatient Overrated

Author:Barry Hannah

“I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.”

Sports Patient Puzzles Impatient Impatience Golfers Crosswords

Author:Brett Hull

“Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.”

Persons Waiting Planets Impatient

Author:Jay Kay

“I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Helping Approach Management Frustrating Impatient Need Help

Author:John P. Kotter