Quotes and Sayings about Haste

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.  ~Saint Vincent de Paul


God made time, but man made haste.  ~Irish Proverb


He is invariably in a hurry.  Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.  ~Elizabeth Bibesco


Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.  ~Lord Chesterfield


It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.  ~C.E.M. Joad


Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.  ~John Wesley


The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.  ~Turkish Proverb


Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.  ~Lao Tzu


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


Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.  ~Robert James Waller


This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.  ~Matthew Arnold


Rivers know this:  there is no hurry.  We shall get there someday.  ~A.A. Milne


Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.  Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.  ~St Francis de Sales


He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.  ~Turkish Proverb


Waiting is one of life's hardships.  ~Lemony Snicket


I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down.  You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.  ~Max Eastman