Hasty Action Quotes

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

Never have so few, lost so much, so stupidly, so fast.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.