Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

Italian Proverb

He who is not impatient is not in love

Gretchen Rubin

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Eric Shinseki

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

William Wordsworth

Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.

Trevor Noah

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

Jim Padilla

I get impatient too but I also don't walk on water.

Douglas Coupland

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Chuck Carlson

That really says investors are getting impatient with the turnaround in the technology sector.

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.