IMPATIENCE

Related Subjects: Haste, Philosophy, Resignation, Rest, Waiting, Worry

1. Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.—BACON
   

2. I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.—JOHN CALVIN
   

3. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.—CLEON
   

4. In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

5. Such is our impatience, our hatred of procrastination in everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging time along by force, and not he us.—W. S. LANDOR
   

6. Impatience does not diminish, but augments the evil.—Proverb
   

7. Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.—JEREMY TAYLOR