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Definition of Impatience
Impatience

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

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Impatience Quotations

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Edward Sapir

Impatience Translations

impatience in French is impatience
impatience in German is Ungeduld
impatience in Italian is impazienza
impatience in Spanish is impaciencia


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