Browsing Topic Best Haste Quotes

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The letters don’t get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God’s affairs by too much haste in them.

Haste is a poor counselor

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Haste is blind and improvident.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I’ve ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing…. Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

You’ve got to make haste while it’s still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don’t want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. – Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn’t hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Take time for all things.

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!

Make haste cautiously.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew…. Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother’s bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak–above all, any little child–to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste–never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer–crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.