He that too early aspires to honors must resolve to encounter not only the opposition of interest, but the malignity of envy. He that is too eager to be rich generally endangers his fortune in wild adventures and uncertain projects; and he that hastens too speedily to reputation often raises his character by artifices and […]
Hurry Quotes
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Robert, in short, had crossed that certain dark boundary within a man’s soul. He’d entered into a place where fifteen minutes seems a long drive for dinner and a movie. Where he skips the predate shower in favor of a few swipes with the Speed Stick. Where all through dinner he’s plotting how to beg […]
The man who wants to be an angel is never in a hurry to begin.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished.
Stepton ran a rat-race! It wasn’t so much the way he trained the rats to race – it was the way he got the mice to ride them.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
