haste makes waste

English

Proverb

haste makes waste

1. Being too hasty leads to wasteful mistakes.

Synonyms

• look before you leap

Related terms

• great haste makes great waste

Translations

being too hasty leads to wasteful mistakes

• Arabic: فِي الْعَجَلَة اَلنَّدَامَة (fī l-ʕajala n-nadāma), العجلة من الشيطان

  Libyan Arabic: استعجل تبطى وتاكل خبطة

• Azerbaijani: tələsən təndirə düşər
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欲速則不達／欲速则不达 (zh) (yù sù zé bù dá)

• Czech: práce kvapná málo platná (cs), práce kvapná, málo platná (cs)
• Danish: hastværk er lastværk (da)
• Dutch: haastige spoed is zelden goed (nl), haast en spoed is zelden goed
• Finnish: ei ole hoppu hyväksi, eikä kiire kunniaksi
• French: hâte rend déchets
• Galician: as présas nunca son boas
• Georgian: მოჩქარეს მოუგვიანდესო (močkares mougviandeso)
• German: gut Ding will Weile haben (de) (literally “a good thing needs time”), Eile mit Weile (literally “hurry at leisure”), nichts mit Hast als Flöhe fangen (literally “[do] nothing with haste but catching flees”), in Eile gefreit, in Muße bereut (literally “married with haste, regretted at leisure”)
• Hindi: जल्दी काम शैतान का (jaldī kām śaitān kā)
• Hungarian: lassan járj, tovább érsz (hu), hamar munka ritkán jó
• Italian: la gatta frettolosa fece i gattini ciechi
• Japanese: 急がば回れ (ja), 果報は寝て待て, 急いては事を仕損じる
• Macedonian: брза кучка слепи кучиња раѓа (brza kučka slepi kučinja raǵa)
• Mongolian: яарвал даарна ядарвал өлсөнө (jaarval daarna jadarval ölsönö)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hastverk er lastverk

  Nynorsk: hastverk er lastverk

• Persian: عجله کار شیطان است ('ajale kâr-e šeytân ast)
• Polish: co nagle, to po diable (pl), gdy się człowiek spieszy, to się diabeł cieszy (pl)
• Portuguese: a pressa é a inimiga da perfeição
• Romanian: graba strică treaba
• Russian: поспеши́шь — люде́й насмеши́шь (pospešíšʹ — ljudéj nasmešíšʹ)
• Spanish: las prisas no son buenas consejeras
• Swahili: haraka haraka haina baraka
• Turkish: acele işe şeytan karışır
• Vilamovian: ny moh nist cy byhend, do der daj at ny śent

See also

• more haste, less speed

References

• Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 128.