Waiting Quotes

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.

Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

All truths wait in all things.

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

I wait for death and journalists.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

Just always be waiting for me.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.