Haste Quotes


Through I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry
Jon Wesley

The More Haste ever the worse speed. – Churchill.

No Two Things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
Colton.

Haste is of the devil.
Koran.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Shakespeare.

Hurry is only good for catching files.
Russian Proverb.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.
Fuller.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself.
Seneca

Haste is not always speed. We must learn to work and wait. This is like God, who perfects hi works through beautiful gradations.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere.

Haste usually turns upon bring late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of always being ten minutes too early.
Bovee.

It is of no use running; to set out be times is the main point.
La Fontaine.

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and he tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
C.A. Stoddard.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.
Paulet.

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
Franklin.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the things he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things.
Chesterfield.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Emerson.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
Shakespeare.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill, but neither of them ever learns the master’s trade.
Colton.

Make haste slowly.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

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