Haste

(211 votes)   Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(192 votes)   Make haste slowly.

Latin Proverbs
Sayings of Latin Origin

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(144 votes)   Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley
1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism

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(133 votes)   Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

Charles A. Stoddard

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(129 votes)   No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

William J. Durant
1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist

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