Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.
Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence of the Father and the Son. There are many among us, even members of the Church, who feel that there is no need for haste in the observance of Gospel principles and the keeping of the commandments.
The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
The more haste, the less speed.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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.
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.