Waiting Quotes

How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time foreverything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waitingfor me.

~ V.c. Andrews

You are the child of this universe. For you, she was waiting billions of years.

~ Debasish Mridha

Waiting taught me, I can't have it in my way. But in God's way.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will wait for God’s promises to be fulfilled in my life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you wait for God’s own fulfilment of His promises.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Remember it is your choice, you can either wait for someone or end someone’s waiting.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

~ Dan Pearce

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

~ Maurice Chevalier

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

~ Hermann Hesse

When we try to slow things down, it tries to run ahead of us. When we try to fast forward it, it holds us back. Einstein was probably right about it, time IS elastic. One pull at it and it will snap back onto you.

~ Saptarshi Majumder

This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.

~ Anthony Liccione

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

I was not born to wait.

~ Gwenda Bond

As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.

~ Clifford Cohen

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

~ Stanley Kubrick

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

~ Isaac Marion

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn’t sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.

~ J.b. Mcgee

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

~ Cameron Conaway

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.

~ Auliq Ice

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

~ Christina Baker Kline

Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.

~ Rob Kendall

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

~ Amos Gideon Buba

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.

~ Anthony Liccione

In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All along I'd vaguely assumed the emptiness and the pain meant I was doing something wrong. But maybe it was all just part of the process so something new could be born. First the barrenness, to make space. Then the pain, which is the only way to a birth.

~ Stephanie Rische

Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita