These quotes about impatience display how the world as a whole is in a hurry – mostly unnecessary.

Yes!

Impatience is the reason you see so much chaos and confusion throughout the world. When patience bids goodbye from you, impatience rules the roost.

In fact, impatience does no good to your life. Often you lose your mental peace when you do things impatiently.

Why has impatience become so predominant in everyone’s life?

• No one has the patience to listen to the viewpoint of others.
• No one has the patience to wait for his success.
• No one has the patience to make his relationship work.
• No country has the patience to be friendly with other countries.

These quotes about impatience often relates to your life.

1. “A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Meaning

There are times you must act hastily to be more productive in your life. You cannot keep on waiting for your time to come. If you wait too long to act, you will be left far behind. So, you have to hurry when there is a need.

But, when you are impatient about everything, you end up doing things which causes unhappiness to many. When you are impatient, you utter harsh words which you would not do if you were a wee bit patient.

Do you know why the modern world is a tense place to live?

It is because there is no patience between countries. And there is no patience between people.

2. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” – Guy Kawasaki

Meaning

What exactly does patience mean?

It is putting a rein to your impulsive emotions. Patience does not mean you do not have emotions. It just means that you know the art of camouflaging your impatience.

Hiding your impatience is very needed in today’s chaotic world. Without patience, the world will not have peace. Imagine a world where people cannot conceal their impatience. It would be one hell of a place to live.

3. “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, Killosophy

Meaning

Most of us feel that God is late in helping us.

Many a time, you feel that God should be a little faster in helping you.

But God does not give you what you need instantly. He prepares you for it. And when he feels you are ready, He gives you more than what you prayed for.

This is the reason you must have patience to understand the ways of God.

4. “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

Meaning

You want instant success. You want instant money. When it is delayed, you are impatient.

Do you know life gives you many opportunities to change yourself?

You ignore the openings life offers to you.

You while away your time doing nothing, thereby wasting your life.

But, you are impatient and unhappy with your life when things are not happening your way.

Remember that life has its own timings. Everything will happen to you at the required time.

5. “The biggest pitfall as you make your way through life is impatience.” –  Susan Jeffers

Meaning

The biggest downfall in your life is your impatience.

When you are impatient, you lose good friends\relationship. Most of you live through your life without noticing the blessings you have.

Your impatience makes blind to the good things in your life.

6. “Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Meaning

You must practice patience in all spheres of your life, however hard you find it.

If you want a good marriage, you must be patient with your spouse. There are times your patience will be tested to its extreme. But it is better to be patient, and save your relationship, than be impatient and destroy it.

Your friends might do things that make you feel impatient. But when you stay patient, you will be saving your friendship.

Your colleagues might be making life at your work place hellish. But when you practice patience, you will saving your job.

So, patience does more for you than your impatience.

7. “When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Meaning

You have many expectations in your life. When it takes too long for your anticipations to materialize, you have all sorts of doubts whether it will happen at all.

When you have doubts, you are no longer patient.

Doubts is the root cause to impatience.

8. “Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!” – Isrealmore Ayivor

Meaning

Imagine yourself travelling in a car through a beautiful natural scenery. When you are very impatient to reach your destination, you scarcely look around you. Your impatience makes you miss out the scenic beauty of nature.

It is the same in your life.

When you are impatient, you fail to notice the good qualities your life is blessed with.

So, be patient.

9. “Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don’t make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT.” – Israel Ayivor

Meaning

Your abilities will shine only when you have the patience to bring it to the open.

You have many potentials to make you shine in life.

But, you fail to make an impact because you make your potentials powerless by being impatient.

Meaningful among the quotes about impatience.

10. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person = Richelle E. Goodrich

Meaning

When you are impatient, you do many rash things which you will eventually regret.

Impatience can never make you happy. Actually, your impatience is the outward show of your inner tension.

Have you ever called a person as a happy impatient person?

There is no such person in the whole world.

You can only call an impatient person, a unhappy person.

Yes!

Impatience is the birthplace of unhappiness.

This one is priceless among the quotes about impatience.

11. Impatience has ruined many crowns, it had lured people to give up when they have just few minutes to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet. – Isrealmore Ayivor

Impatience destroys many of your dreams.

When you are working towards your success, you are impatient to achieve it immediately.

When you do not get your success as fast as you expected, you let go, as your impatience makes you feel that it is no use trying.

In your impatience, you never know that your success might be around the corner.

One of the best among the quotes about impatience.

12. “Impatience turns an argument into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness and sorrow to amazement.” – Jeremy Taylor

Meaning

Impatience makes everything gather momentum for the wrong reasons.

When you are impatient, you turn a mild argument into a venomous fight.

Impatience has the snowballing effect of making all that happens in your life look aggravated and worse.

13. “We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success- instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And of course, that doesn’t serve us too well.” –Boniface Sagini

Meaning

Most of us want instant result  in everything we do.

We have become that impatient. But invariably nothing happens as fast as your impatience demands.

So, impatience does not serve any purpose as it only makes things worse.

14. “What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.” -Steve Maraboli

Meaning

Impatience does no good to you, as it is the main reason for many mishaps that is happening around the world. You think that hurrying will bring you what you need fast and immediately.

No!

It only makes you commit many mistakes and bring in dissatisfaction into your life.

15. “Impatience is racing at misery full speed.” – Richelle E.Goodrich

Meaning

When you are impatient, you are speeding towards your misery in real fast manner.

Your impatience makes you do things wrongly. When you do everything wrong, you cannot hope to have peace in your life.

CONCLUSION

Can you see how these quotes about impatience teaches you the value of patience?

A minute of pausing when you are angry, saves you days of regret and remorse. A minute of thinking will make you desist from doing things that ruin your peace.

So, practice patience and do away with your impatience.