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Tag Name "Haste" (187)

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When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.
Vasily Chuikov
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Henry David Thoreau
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I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
Stephen King
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Victor Hugo
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.
Ovid
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Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
Vincent de Paul
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
Vladimir Lenin
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You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry be deliberated in everything wait until you know the true way.
Wallace D. Wattles
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So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
Statius
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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
Walt Whitman
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My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day nor shall I waste the day.
Walter Russell
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We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
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Avoid all haste calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
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Haste is good only in catching fleas.
Alla Yaroshinskaya
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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
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I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow
William Shakespeare
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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
William Shakespeare
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
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