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Impatience is irritation due to delay

• Impatient:  Having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked. Oxford Dictionary 
• Impatient:  Easily annoyed by someone’s mistakes or because you have to wait. Cambridge Dictionary 
• Impatient:  Restless or short of temper especially under irritation, delay, or opposition. Merriam Webster
• Haste,  Slow down,  Patience

We live in a world obsessed with hurry and speed … 

• This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold
• America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. Laurence J. Peter
• The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. Rajneesh
• Haste, Patience

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… where no-one wants to wait for anything 

• She wanted something to happen – something, anything; she did not know what. Kate Chopin
• Waiting is one of life’s hardships. Lemony Snicket
• Impatience is waiting in a hurry.
• When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life. Laura Teresa Marquez

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Impatience doesn’t wait for solutions to take effect 

• One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don’t allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on. The Dalai Lama

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Impatience rails at the thorns; patience puts its shoes on 

• Life is like a vast landscape with both soft grass and sharp thorns; impatience rails at the thorns; patience puts on a pair of shoes. Rick Hanson

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Impatience, some argue, is a cardinal sin 

• There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Franz Kafka
• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. W. H. Auden
• Sin

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Impatience can be a great pitfall in life 

• The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience. Susan Jeffers

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Impatience cuts down the tree to reach its fruit 

• An impatient man… forces all things to satisfy his wishes, he breaks the boughs to gather the fruit before it is ripe… Wellins Calcott
• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. Philip Shuttleworth

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Impatience keeps checking the roots, thus stopping the seedling from growing 

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap. Abraham Lincoln
• Little seedlings never flouish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they are continually pulled up to see if the roots are grateful yet. Bertha Damon
• No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks. Steve Fowler
• Life as gardening or farming

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Impatience can do much damage to your life, especially if taken to extreme 

• An impatient man is hurried along by his wild and furious desires into an abyss of miseries, the more extensive his power is, the more fatal is his Impatience to him, he will wait for nothing, he will not give himself any time to take measures, he forces all things to satisfy his wishes, he breaks the boughs to gather the fruit before it is ripe, he breaks down the gates rather than wait till they are opened, he will needs reap when the wise husbandman is sowing. Wellins Calcott
• Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego- maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of- control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.  Anthon St. Maarten
• One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. Chinese Proverb
• Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition. Ezekiel Hopkins

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Impatience gets you nowhere, fast 

• Impatience never commanded success. Edwin H. Chapin
• Impatience wants rewards now; patience helps you tolerate delayed gratification, which fosters increased success and sense of worth. Rick Hanson
• Impatience will get you nowhere, fast. Neale Donald Walsch

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Impatience can cause you to make mistakes and do foolish things 

• Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. Janette Oke
• What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. Steve Maraboli
• Mistakes

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Impatience leads to ineffective haste 

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. May Sarton 
• Haste

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Paradoxically, impatience makes time drag 

• For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up. Jean Paul Richter
• Boredom,  Time

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Impatience causes excessive effort, thus tiring you out 

• Excessive effort can also result from impatience or exaltation, two states that lead nowhere. If you begin climbing a high mountain at a run, your lungs will soon force you to stop. In the same way, if you draw a bow too far, it will break, or if you try to cook on too high a flame, you will end up burning your food. Matthieu Ricard
• Effort

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Impatience resists the present moment … 

• Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W.H. Auden
• Resistance

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… and blocks the wisdom, joy and peace that it contains 

• The Chinese word for “busy” is composed of two characters: “heart” and “killing.” When we make ourselves so busy that we are always rushing around trying to get this or that “done” or “over with,” we kill something vital in ourselves, and we smother the quiet wisdom in our heart. When we invest our work with judgment and impatience, always striving for speed and efficiency, we lose the capacity to appreciate the six million quiet moments that may bring us peace, beauty, or joy. As we seek salvation through our frantic productivity and accomplishments, we squander the teachings that may be present in this very moment, in the richness of this particular breath. Brother Steindhl- Rast
• Wisdom,  Joy,  Inner peace

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The patient weak always conquer the impatient strong 

• Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. Brian Adams 
• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. John Ruskin
• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton

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Nothing arouses impatience more than adversity 

• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.  Michel de Montaigne
• They speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his or her heart is constituted. Martin Luther
• Adversity

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Often it is impatience with adversity, not the adversity itself, that causes the most suffering 

• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.  James Keller
• Suffering

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Do not be impatient with your slow progress 

• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, refecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. Vernon Howard
• Change is not a process for the impatient. Barbara Reinhold
• Progress

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Watch yourself for signs of impatience and watch it mindfully 

• To change a behavior, first we need to catch ourselves doing it! I’ve been practicing removing certain things from my consciousness/thoughts/words/behaviors. Stuff like criticism (of others and myself), gossip, complaining, comparing, impatience, holding my breath, getting frustrated and other stuff that isn’t in line with my Highest Self. Brian Johnson
• Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself, in whatever form—it may be the awakening of the pain- body. This can take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your relationship, and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens from its dormant state. Any delay will allow a conditioned mental- emotional reaction to arise and take you over. Make it a habit to go within at once and focus as much as you can on the inner energy field of your body. Eckhart Tolle
• Mindfulness

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Transcend impatience by slowing down 

• Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey
• I have no time to be in a hurry. Henry David Thoreau
• There’s more to life than increasing its speed. Mohandas Gandhi
• Slowing down

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Some argue that impatience has its place 

• Everything comes to the man who won’t wait. Ada Leverson
• I can be impatient. But I don’t think it’s always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated. Brant Daugherty
• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. Rita Mae Brown
• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante Alighieri

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Maybe the answer lies in being patient in attitude, impatient in action 

• One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one’s power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible. Rodney Collin
• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison
• The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes. R. J. Rushdoony
• Attitude,  Action

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Love is patient, lust is not 

• Love is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles lust is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common. Israelmore Ayivor
• He who is not impatient is not in love. Italian Proverb
• Love,  Lust

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More thoughts on impatience 

• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. Buddha
• Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.
• Be not impatient in delay, But wait as one who understands; When spirit rises and commands, The gods are ready to obey. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Thou know’st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time. William Shakespeare
• It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. Evelyn Underhill
• People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good. Carolyn Kizer
• Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. Jean Toomer
• The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. Criss Jami
• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.  H. Auden
• The impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all. L.T. Meade
• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you. Hannah Hurnard

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• I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dying my hair tonight. Jarod Kintz
• No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks. Steve Fowler
• Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. Guy Kawasaki 
• When someone is impatient and says, ‘I haven’t got all day,’ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day? George Carlin
• Impatience is waiting in a hurry.

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