Waiting Quotes

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

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

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Death comes to those who wait. And to those who don't. So either way.

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

The world is just waiting to be skated.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Don't wait for change. You change.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.