Quotes about Impatience
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
- Anonymous
Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
- Anonymous
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
- Mae West
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
- Janette Oke
Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.
- Edith Wharton
It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.
- Edith Wharton
Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.
- Robert Frost
Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
- Stanley Hauerwas
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori