Waiting Quotes

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Don't wait until it's too late to say I love you.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

I have not forgotten my story I want to tell Millennial women. I'm still waiting for them all to gather out there. I sent out a request for people to call Millennial that they know.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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

I will wait for love to fly to me and teach me how to fly

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.