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Inspirational Quotes on Haste

A Select Collection of Inspirational Quotes on Haste

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Try to do things slow, and you never complete the task. Try to do things fast, and you ruin the task in haste. The secret is to be efficient and effective. Read this collection of quotes on haste. Read slowly, or you might miss the message.

Herodotus
Haste in every business brings failure.

Robertson Davies
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

George Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

John Wesley
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Publilius Syrus
To do two things at once is to do neither.

Robert Updegraff
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

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