Impatience

Impatience is the lack of patience expressed by restlessness and intolerance of delays or anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

Quotes

 * One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world’s problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive - it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
 * Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), 38.


 * Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
 * Homer, The Odyssey, Book 20, line 381. Pope's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.


 * I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,   For some things are ill to wait.
 * Jean Ingelow, Song of Seven, Seven Times Two; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.


 * I am on fire To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh And yet not ours.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act IV, scene 1, line 117.


 * The one who is slow to anger has great discernment, but the impatient one displays his foolishness.
 * Solomon, Proverbs 14:29