Waiting Quotes

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability.

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems. YOU are the angel that can fix your problems.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen

(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

The world will not wait for us.

When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Do what scares you, your dreams are there waiting for you.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.