haste makes waste

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-ʿajala 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 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 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.