Impatience Quotes

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

Strength, Patience, Support

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

Three, Laziness, Chief

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Art, Patience, Concealing

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden

Cannot, Return, Perhaps

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
James Keller

Long, Adversity, Keep

My worst quality is impatience.
Emma Thompson

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
Hugh Laurie

Love, Men, Feeling

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown

Intuition, Logic, Due

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor

Poor, Himself, Wants

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
Tony Kushner

Sound, Computer, Feels

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Eric Alterman

Anger, Understand, Easy

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
Hans Blix

Opinion, Wait, Action

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Edward Sapir

Done, Desire, Lies

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin

Against, Public, Actually

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Richard Hammond

Greed, Lovable, Arrogance

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