“ We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
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“ There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy — for I am myself three-parts a fool. ”
- Patrick Campbell- Copy
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“ Great writers arrive among us like new diseases — threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ”
- Craig Raine- Copy
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“ Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ”
- Sir John Denham- Copy
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“ Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week. ”
- Eric Temple Bell- Copy
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“ The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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“ Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbor's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them… ”
- St. Francis De Sales- 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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“ I have argued that even my guardian angel is as bound to me at least until I'll die. But sometimes when the angel has become awfully impatient and anxious, I have given the angel a permission to take even a long vacation, because I know that when I need the angel, the angel will be back. ”
- Mika Waltari- Copy
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“ I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. ”
- Hesiod- Copy
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“ I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job… whether they like me as a person or not! ”
- Lynda Carter- Copy
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“ By doing service, heart and mind are purified — be convinced of this! To engage in service is a very powerful sadhana ; do not become impatient. Rather serve your people with the utmost calm and have a kind word for everyone. ”
- Sri Anandamayi Ma- Copy
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