Quotes about Haste

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life.

My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

That thou doest, do quickly.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.