Waiting Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Paulo Coelho

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Jane Austen

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Carolyn McCulley

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

Crystal Woods

People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.

A.J. Darkholme

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

A.J. Darkholme

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

Dejan Stojanovic

There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
Only as many pages, only as much ink
To accept all of us at light-speed
Hurrying into the Promised Land
Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.

A.J. Darkholme

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

Lois Lowry

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Grace Fiorre

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

Amit Kalantri

Practice patience to get the results but don't be much patient to take actions.

Anthony Liccione

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

A.J. Darkholme

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Toba Beta

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

Dejan Stojanovic

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.. Dejan Stojanovic
The world is always open,
Waiting to be discovered.

Therese May

People don't like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Elisabeth Elliot

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

Haruki Murakami

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

Edward Verrall Lucas

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Chuck Palahniuk

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

A.J. Darkholme

The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

Dejan Stojanovic

The night is still waiting.

Hermann Hesse

Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.

Elisabeth Elliot

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

Ram Mohan

Desire is when you work hard to achieve something. For an achievable object, its more about making a sudden decision.

Dean Koontz

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Dean Koontz

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!

R.S. Thomas

You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.
You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

Ryan Lilly

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Mandy Hale

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

William Gurnall

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Kin Hubbard

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

Dean Koontz

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

A.J. Darkholme

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.

Bryant McGill

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

Haruki Murakami

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Toba Beta

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

J. Lynn

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

Chloe Thurlow

Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison

Khalid Masood

Waiting for time is never a waste of time.

Auliq Ice

Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

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.

Ashay Abbhi

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

Regina Sirois

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

Unknown Author

Time doesn't wait for anyone, but you always have to wait for time.

John Daniel Thieme

To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .

Michael Bassey Johnson

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

Muhammad Imran Hasan

Patience Always Gives You The Best Reward When The Time Is Right....

V.C. Andrews

What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us."
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.

V.C. Andrews

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

David Jeremiah

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

Melanie Shankle

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.

Elisabeth Elliot

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Elisabeth Elliot

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Tracie Miles

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings.

Jacob M. Appel

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

Ally Condie

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

Jessica Clare

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

Samuel Beckett

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Primo Levi

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Bryant McGill

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

Amit Kalantri

Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

José N. Harris

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

Kamal Parvez

sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, sometime am so feeling lonely.

Mandy Hale

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

Neal Shusterman

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Charles R. Swindoll

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

G.A. Aiken

Now she sat in their dining hall, a book in her lap but unread while she stared blankly across the room.Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

G.A. Aiken

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

Anthony Liccione

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Ally Carter

I'll be here when you get back.

Gary Shteyngart

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Davi Oliveira

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

A.J. Darkholme

When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.

Derek Landy

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

Dan Pearce

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

Hermann Hesse

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if
he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Cecelia Ahern

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.

Gregory Corso

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

Kaiden Blake

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.

Lemony Snicket

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

Dejan Stojanovic

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Dejan Stojanovic

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

Robert Jordan

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Richie Norton

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

A.J. Darkholme

Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you’re waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.

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