Definition of Impatience

Impatience The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. Related Definitions: An, As, Being, Chafing, Change, Child, Delay, Eagerness, Endurance, Expected, For, Impatience, Impatient, Invalid, Of, Opposition, Or, Pain, Passion, Quality, Something, Spirit, Suffering, The, Want

Impatience Quotations Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. Mother Teresa 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 Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. Rita Mae Brown My worst quality is impatience. Emma Thompson No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. Jeremy Taylor If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. Jimmy Breslin Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Larry Wall Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. Edward Sapir If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors. Hans Blix

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