more haste, less speed

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The word speed is used here in the dated sense of “success, luck” (compare Godspeed), though probably with a pun on the sense “velocity”. Compare the same in Low German je gröter Hast, je minder Spood.

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Libyan Arabic: استعجل تبطى تاكل خبطة — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Chinese Mandarin: 欲速則不達 /欲速则不达 (yùsù zé bùdá) — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Czech: spěchej pomalu — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Danish: hastværk er lastværk — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Finnish: ei ole hoppu hyväksi, eikä kiire kunniaksi — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Finnish: hiljaa hyvä tulee — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• French: il ne faut pas confondre vitesse et précipitation — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Galician: canta máis présa, máis vagar — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Georgian: მოჩქარეს მოუგვიანდესო (močkares mougviandeso) — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• German: Eile mit Weile — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Greek: σπεύδε βραδέως (spévde vradéos) — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Hungarian: lassan járj, tovább érsz — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Irish: dá mhéad í an deifir is ea is mó an mhoill — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Italian: presto e bene raro avviene — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Norwegian Bokmål: hastverk er lastverk — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hastverk er lastverk — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Polish: gdy się człowiek śpieszy, to się diabeł cieszy — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Polish: co nagle, to po diable — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Polish: śpiesz się powoli — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Romanian: graba strică treaba — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Spanish: vísteme despacio, que tengo prisa — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Swahili: haraka haraka haina baraka — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly
• Tagalog: ang maglakad nang matulin, kung matinik ay malalim — when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly