The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell

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

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

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan

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

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus

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

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