Top 60 Haste Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Haste Quotes from famous people such as Livy, Augustine Birrell, Oliver Herford, Maria Mitchell, Gustav Stresemann, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Livy
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.
Augustine Birrell
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
P. J. O’Rourke
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Aaron Hill
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This pandemic is a global war. It has affected the entire world. Those countries which had lifted the lockdown in haste thinking that it was over, were again forced to impose it to curb the spread.
Uddhav Thackeray
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.
Horatio Nelson
If, in our haste to ‘progress,’ the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
Bobbie Ann Mason
I’m not someone who will make a decision in haste and let loneliness decide the wrong partner for me.
Shamita Shetty
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
My decision to leave ‘Ween’, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
Gene Ween
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Ethel Rosenberg
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Silius Italicus
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
If, in our haste to ‘progress,’ the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Livy
My decision to leave ‘Ween’, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
Gene Ween
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Barbara Jordan
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.
Horatio Nelson
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
David Malpass
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt
Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
Scott Rudin
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
Bobbie Ann Mason
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
I’m not someone who will make a decision in haste and let loneliness decide the wrong partner for me.
Shamita Shetty
Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
Scott Rudin
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
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.
Barbara Jordan
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
John Paul Jones
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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.
Augustine Birrell