“ There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience… ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ There is no sin nor wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience. ”
- St. Catherine of Siena- Copy
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“ Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
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“ In certain situations we'd be down and the competitor in me would want to get it all back in one play. That impatience makes for bad plays, mistakes, and turnarounds. ”
- Browning Nagle- Copy
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“ In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. Command by obeying. ”
- Motto- Copy
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“ All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing in of what is apparently at issue. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. ”
- Joseph Rickaby- Copy
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“ The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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