Quotes about Haste

Make every effort to come to me quickly,

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

The Scripture is a love letter which the great God has written to us. We must not run it over in haste, but meditate upon God's wisdom in writing, and his love in sending it to us.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.