15 Haste Quotes to Stop You from Hurrying

1. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -Søren Kierkegaard 

2. The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. -Turkish Proverb 

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


4. Haste makes waste. -Benjamin Franklin 

5. Make haste slowly.-Augustus Caesar 

6. Nothing is more vulgar than haste. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

7. Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. -Moliere 

8. Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. -Bovee.  

9. 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 

10. God made time, but man made haste. Irish Proverb 

11. All haste implies weakness. -George MacDonald. 

 12. Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -Byron. 

 13. Haste is needful in a desperate case. -Shakespeare. 

 14. The more haste, ever the worst speed. -Churchill. 

 15. Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to haven. -Fuller.