150+ Interesting Quotes About Waiting and Patience

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. – Marianne Williamson

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. – Christopher Paolini

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. – James Dobson

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.                      – Tom Stoppard

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes? – Elvis Presley

Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. – Zoe Kazan

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. – Noam Chomsky

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.         – Che Guevara

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. – Oswald Chambers

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. – Edward de Bono

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we’re waiting for.              – Charles Stanley

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.               – Joyce Meyer

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. – Fulton J. Sheen

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.                        – Saint Augustine

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake. – Haruki Murakam

Sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man – not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. – Diana Gabaldon

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

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire. – Wanda Sykes

Some things in life are worth waiting for. – Danielle Steel

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan

Spread your wings – today. Why wait? – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

The inaction of waiting is charged with significance. – Alan Blum

The Indian race is waiting and praying. – Chief Joseph

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it. – John C. Maxwell

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. – Theodor W. Adorno

The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. – Melody Beattie

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. – Fran Lebowitz

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.    – Jim Rohn

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.                         – Steven Pressfield

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

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come. – Lee Iacocca

The waiting game is like a gun without a trigger. – Kelvin Osaghae

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. – Anne Lamott

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.                   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.                – Bertrand Russell

The world is waiting for men with the vision – it is not interested in mere pictures.              – Charles Webster Hawthorne

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is to have someone worth waiting for. – Unknown

There are two kinds of people in one’s life: people whom one keeps waiting, and people for whom one waits. – S. N. Behrman

There is an army of waiters in this world. – Henry Ward Beecher

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.              – Abraham Lincoln

Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down. – Misty Copeland

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait. – Toba Beta

Time waits for no one. – Yasutaka Tsutsui

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. – De Maistr

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.         – Marianne Williamson

Waiting does not mean doing anything. Waiting is a time of listening. – Lisa Clements

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. – Seth Godin

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful… – José N. Harris

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.  – Ogwo David Emenike

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting. – Henri Nouwen

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count. – Robert Anthony

Waiting is almost an action less action: the action of inaction, the suspension of movement, the anticipation of action rather than the action itself. – Diane Elam

Waiting is definitely a test. It tests our patience and our loyalty. It tests our love and our mercy. Waiting is not for the weak. – Lee Young

Waiting is just the period of time right before action! – Jennifer J. Weiss

Waiting is normal. Expect it. – Pavel Somov

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

Waiting is not just about passing the time between the moment when the expectation is raised and when it comes to completion … it has deep and lasting value in and of itself.     – Paula Gooder

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.              – I Ching

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.                              – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Waiting is one of the great arts. – Margery Allingham

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. – Paulo Coelho

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.                      – Cesare Pavese

Waiting is the rust of the soul. –  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Waiting makes me restless. When I’m ready, I’m ready. – Reba McEntire

Waiting makes wine better, but waiting makes man decay! Don’t wait because you have no time! Move fast! – Mehmet Murat ildan

Waiting to live now so you can live later is stopping you from living now and later.              – Richie Norton

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

Waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding. – Neil Gaiman

We are not born to wait. We are born to do. – Dean Koontz

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. – Khalil Gibran

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.    – Joseph Campbell

We will wait. We will wait till all are made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God. – John Piper

We’re like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. – Luigi Pirandello

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

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.       – George Harrison

While waiting for Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.   – Wendell Johnson

You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come! – Mehmet Murat ildan

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. – Gary Ryan Blair

You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A. A. Milne

You don’t waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust. – Reba McEntire

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. –  Craig Bruce

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. – Morihei Ueshiba

You’ve got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion. – Mike Rowe

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