Haste Quotes

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”
― Lewis Carroll

“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it”
― Howard Newton

“When I enter my home,
many homes seem to be waiting for me
to give a shape to this life, which
is about to perish.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Some of us would take our time, if we knew that we are rushing to our deaths.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.”
― Plato

“Slow and steady wins the race, not the person who wants to climb the whole stairs in one stride.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“I acted hastily towards him. Haste is a poor counsellor: I acted wrongly.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Often what is done in haste, we regret at leisure.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Unngh,' the Minotaur says.

What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.”
― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time

“Those who hasten to be wise (...) have some times lost their own Wits.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“I do not 'gallivant,'" Truzenzuzex commented primly. "I plan in haste.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Flinx Transcendent

“We hastily call someone a friend.”
― Nabil N. Jamal

“... haste can do nothing with these hills. I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

“Do not be in haste nor hurry but be in humility of heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Neiher be in a hurry nor in haste.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Haste not nor hurry in life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ein hastiger Renner ist nicht immer das schnellste Pferd.”
― Karl May, Von Bagdad nach Stambul

“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Haste made waste and Grant knew it, but in this case the haste was unavoidable — unavoidable, that is, unless he was willing to take the right of having another general win the prize he was after — because he was fighting two wars simultaneously: one against the Confederacy, or at any rate so much of its army as stood between him and the river town that was his goal, and the other against a man who, like himself, wore blue. That was where the need for haste came in. The rival general's name was John McClernand. A former Springfield lawyer and Illinois congressman, McClernand was known to have political aspirations designed to carry him not one inch below the top position occupied at present by his friend, another former Springfield lawyer and Illinois congressman, Abraham Lincoln. Moreover, having decided that the road to the White house led through Vicksburg, he had taken pains to see that he traveled it well equipped, and this he had done by engaging the support and backing of the President but also the Secretary of War. With the odds thus lengthened against him, Grant — when he belatedly found out what his rival had been up to — could see that his private war against McClernand might well turn out to be as tough, in several ways, as the public one he had been fighting for 18 months against the rebels. In the first place, he had not even known that he had this private war on his hands until it was so well underway that his rival had already won the opening skirmish. (p. 60).”
― Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

“And he said...

...speak in haste and your words will have little or no meaning, but they will leave a lasting impression.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...write in haste and your words will leave a jumble of understanding.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Most of our mistakes are not made in haste, but rather in the state of extreme carefulness.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Be not rushed by the tide of life. Take life in sips and little portions.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain