more haste, less speed

English

Proverb

more haste, less speed

1. When you are in a hurry, you often end up completing your task slower.

Translations

when we are in a hurry, we often end up completing our task slower

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欲速則不達, 欲速则不达 (zh) (yùsù zé bùdá)

• Czech: spěchej pomalu
• Finnish: ei ole hoppu hyväksi, eikä kiire kunniaksi, hiljaa hyvä tulee
• Hungarian: lassan járj, tovább érsz

• Italian: presto e bene raro avviene
• Polish: gdy się człowiek śpieszy, to się diabeł cieszy
• Russian: тише едешь, дальше будешь (tíše jédešʹ, dálʹše búdešʹ) (the slower you ride, the farther you'll get), поспешишь — людей насмешишь (pospešíšʹ, ljudéj nasmešíšʹ) (if you do it in a hurry, you’ll make people laugh)

See also

• haste makes waste

References

• George Latimer Apperson, Martin Manser, Dictionary of Proverbs, Wordsworth Editions, 2006, p. 394 [1]