Top 125 Impatient Quotes

I’m patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
Brett Hull
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
I’m fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I’m a woman and a feminist. I’m transgender. I’m an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.
Hari Nef
I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It’s not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
Buzz Aldrin
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn’t grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
Isabel Allende
Now, I’m the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
Jay Kay
We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.
Shaquille O’Neal
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
I’m a fast and impatient dresser, so I can’t dress myself up for too long. I don’t even need a lot of makeup, so I’m usually ready in about half an hour.
Genelia D’Souza
The longest break I have taken in my life was 14 days. On the 15th day, I started getting impatient to start work again.
Rajkumar Hirani
I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
Peter Diamandis
Some of us find ‘relaxing’ to be, in itself, nerve-racking. If we aren’t doing something useful or, at least, that seems useful, we feel guilty, impatient, and mortal.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
I’m an impatient person, so it’s hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.
Robert Redford
I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing ‘Arjun Reddy’ has made me more impatient.
Vijay Deverakonda
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people’s concerns.
Abhijit Banerjee
Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.
Ryan Bethencourt
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I’m impatient sometimes.
Giancarlo Esposito
Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they’re really impatient, especially on the freeways and stuff. And in Texas it’s not like that. Here, it’s kinda like a ‘dog eat dog’ world. But in Texas, it’s really friendly. And all my family is in Texas, so we would visit family more if we lived in Texas.
Cayden Boyd
I’m impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
John Cale
The fact that millennials are fast at communication and expect transparency and don’t feel comfortable with hierarchy gets interpreted as us being impatient or entitled. These traits are perfectly normal given that we’re the first digital natives.
Caroline Ghosn
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
When I’m trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.
Nadiya Hussain
EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined ‘EVOO’ on my cooking show because saying ‘extra virgin olive oil’ over and over was wordy, and I’m an impatient girl – that’s why I make 30-minute meals!
Rachael Ray
Guru Dutt was a serious person, yes. He used to be very impatient, not with the artistes, but with the technicians – especially the camera crew.
Waheeda Rehman
I’m not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I’m never home. I’m constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I’m, like, self-obsessed. I’m irritable, self-absorbed.
Jake Shears
I am a man in a hurry. We have to work both from office and roadside. I am impatient.
Arvind Kejriwal
I’ve got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
Cherie Lunghi
Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better… next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for ‘progress;’ it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
Gore Vidal
I’ve never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
Trevor Noah
I think I’m a mama’s boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I’m a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
Michael Buble
I am very impatient.
Martha Nussbaum
I’m very impatient.
Sue Perkins
I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job… whether they like me as a person or not!
Lynda Carter
Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
Raghuram Rajan
I am very impatient.

I am very impatient.
Michael Sheen
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it’s not done, I get impatient.
Farhan Akhtar
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the ‘next big thing,’ and they are not paying attention to the fact that the ‘next big thing’ can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
Carmen Busquets
Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they’re really impatient, especially on the freeways and stuff. And in Texas it’s not like that. Here, it’s kinda like a ‘dog eat dog’ world. But in Texas, it’s really friendly. And all my family is in Texas, so we would visit family more if we lived in Texas.
Cayden Boyd
I’m patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
Brett Hull
I have a tendency, just because I’m an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
Pablo Schreiber
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
Grace Jones
I am a very impatient director.
Steven Spielberg
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.
Gretchen Rubin
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
Bitsie Tulloch
Old people are often impatient, but for what?
Jonathan Carroll
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don’t like the wispy and the vague… or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I’m impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I’ve done have come to me by instinct.
Barry Hannah
I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
Marian Wright Edelman
I’m very impatient. I am. That’s the bane of my game. I don’t think about what I’m going to do – I just go hit it, I don’t stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.
Brett Hull
You can’t be impatient about growth, because that’s what leads people to make mistakes.
Jerry Della Femina
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you’re dancing, you’re moving your hips. So much fun.
Robin Wright
I think I’ve succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.
John Kendrew
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
Bernard Arnault
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney
I’ve learned that there’s a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don’t understand, or they miss the point. And I’m not saying that’s a good thing or a bad thing; it’s just something we have to contend with.
Kirk Hammett