Waiting Quotes

...Have patience everything with the waiting one moment it will be ready be patient.

~ Deyth Banger

I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it.

~ Jonathan Winters

Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter how long we wait, God’s promise shall be fulfilled.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

~ David Baldacci

Infinite possibilities are waiting for you to notice them.

~ Steven Redhead

No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

~ Barbara Demick

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome.

~ Steven Redhead

I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps. I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.I wait, wait to embrace myself in you.

~ Debatrayee Banerjee

Waiting is a very active part of living. Waiting on God, if we do it correctly, is anything but passive. Waiting works its way out in very deliberate actions, very intentionally searching the Scriptures and praying, intense moments of humility, and self-realization of our finiteness. With the waiting comes learning. I can’t think of much I’ve learned that’s positive from the times I’ve plowed ahead without waiting on God.

~ Wayne Stiles

That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.

~ Aryn Kyle

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come, the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

~ Dean Koontz

What we do while we wait may be more important than what we are waiting for.

~ Tim Hiller

We spent all your life for things and not dedicate the things that await us.

~ Davi Oliveira

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

~ R.c. Lewis

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

~ Ashay Abbhi

This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.

~ Mary Oliver

Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.

~ Regina Sirois

Where do people...and why do people...have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It's when God's people have to wait that they get in trouble. The alternative to waiting for God is idolatry.

~ Marcia Lebhar

The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy, if not there will be no one looking for you.

~ Jasmine Kiyani

You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

~ John Daniel Thieme

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

~ Melanie Shankle

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

~ Sherwood Anderson

Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.

~ Bryant Mcgill

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.

~ Alice Hoffman

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.

~ Sherwood Anderson

Waiting is not always a bad thing, it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

~ David Jeremiah

First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edging their green shoots from the dirt, the parade grounds had been cleared and the maypole had been pulled from its exile in the basement of the Mansion. The board had met and the Queen decided; all that was left was the wait. The wait for May.

~ Colin Meloy

When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives do a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls —And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse —If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I ’d toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But, now, uncertain of the length Of this, that is between, It goads me, like the Goblin Bee, That will not state — its sting.

~ Emily Dickinson

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

~ Kathy Acker

Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

~ G.a. Aiken

On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once?My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze may ruffle her skirt, not a bird may perch atop the steeple. The only way out of a snow globe is by shattering the glass dome that is its sky.

~ Amruta Patil

I became addicted to the floating nature of nothingness, to the charm of its carefree pauses and to waiting. I magnified waiting. I wrote about waiting. I basked in its warm nook and completely let go of who I am or what I really wanted.

~ Ibraheem Hamdi