He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. – Bible

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron

My feeling is unless they’ve somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste. – Mark Lawrenson

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

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

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. – Milarepa

He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in. – Spanish Proverb

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

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. – Aaron Hill

I’m in a hurry to get things done, Oh I rush and rush until life’s no fun, All I’ve really gotta do is live and die, But I’m in a hurry and don’t know why…. – Roger Murrah and Randy VanWarmer

And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. – Bible

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. – Turkish Proverb

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

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

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. – Robert James Waller

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

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. – Eric Hoffer

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. – Moliere

He is invariably in a hurry.  Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. – Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. – Benjamin Franklin

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. – George Byron

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. – Robert Brault

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. – Maria Mitchell

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. – William J. Durant