Haste Quotes

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Saadi

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Ramble

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Biblical Prove

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden".

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

H. P. Lovecraft

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Alla Yaroshinskaya

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffe

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.

Kahlil Gibran

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

La Bruyere