Sayings about Waiting
The future is for those who know how to wait. ~ Russian Proverbs
Wait long, strike fast. ~ Chinese Proverbs
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~ African Proverb
If you wait long enough, it will be good weather. ~ Japanese Proverb
It’s good to hope, it’s the waiting that spoils it. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Time waits for no one. ~ Japanese Proverb
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. ~ Chinese Proverb
Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait. ~ French Proverb
He waits long that waits for another man’s death. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings. ~ French Proverb
He that waits for a dead man’s shoes may long go barefoot. ~ French Proverb
He that feeds himself from waiting could die of hunger. ~ Danish Proverb
Time and tide wait for no men. ~ English Proverbs
People count the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~ French Proverb
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. ~ Danish Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying it has been a fine day. ~ French Proverbs
A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity. A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. ~ Danish Proverbs
He who is waiting for someone else’s bowl often dines late. ~ French Proverb
hen you wait for tomorrow it never comes. When you don’t wait for it tomorrow still comes. ~ Guinean Proverb
The man with no patience waits for daylight, and when it comes he’ll be blind. ~ Arabian Proverb
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death. ~ Japanese Proverbs
He who waits for the moon waits for darkness. ~ African Proverb
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. ~ Traditional Proverb
It’s no use waiting for your ship to come in, unless you’ve sent one out. ~ Belgian Proverbs
Everything comes to him who waits. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Waiting
Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green. ~ Karen Ireland
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. ~ Ivan Turgenev
If you wait, you grow old, nothing more. ~ Walter Bargen
Work and wait, “work and wait” is what God says to us in creation. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ~ Charles Richter
Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~ Oscar Wilde
The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ~ Fran Lebowitz
We are not born to wait. We are born to do. ~ Dean Koontz
Every day’s a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done. ~ Author Unknown
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything comes if a man will only wait. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
All things come round to him who will but wait. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The waiting time, my brothers, is the hardest time of all. ~ Sarah Doudney
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~ Frank Tibolt
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. ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime…. I would make something happen. ~ Louis L’Amour
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. ~ B.C. Forbes Quotes
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Don’t wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn’t. Get going with something small. ~ Irene Kassorla
He, who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. ~ Samuel Johnson
The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come. ~ Lee Iacocca
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t wait to be a great man — be a great boy. ~ Author Unknown
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, he creates the right opportunity. ~ Author Unknown
Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. ~ Christopher Paolini
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes. ~ Percy Ross
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ~ Jonathan Winters
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ~ Maurice Chevalier
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris L. West
All things come to him who waits — provided he knows what he is waiting for. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. ~ Diana Ross
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not. ~ Henry Van Dyke
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~ Stephen Levine
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~ Napoleon Hill
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. ~ Omar Nelson Bradley
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. ~ Earl Nightingale
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. ~ I Ching
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ~ Confucius Quotes
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. ~ Janet Erskine Stuart
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. ~ Bruce Springsteen
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ~ John Mason Brown
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. ~ Sir John Lubbock
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow, gather the roses of life today. ~ Pierre de Ronsard
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~ Author Unknown
There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait a while. It must be recognized that no is an answer. ~ Ruth Stafford Peale
Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ~ Frank C. Bucaro
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. ~ Iris Murdoch
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~ Eden Phillpotts
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. ~ Cesare Pavese
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. ~ Ed Cunningham
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. ~ Joseph De Maistre
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time. ~ Author Unknown
It’s nice to know that we don’t need to wait till tomorrow; we can start to change the world today! ~ Wil Rose
I have always been waiting for something better — sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. ~ Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ~ Author Unknown
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choice less as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How much of human life is lost in waiting. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Patience carries a lot of wait. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. ~ Napoleon Hill
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. ~ Susan M. Watkins
Waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding. ~ Neil Gaiman
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~ Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We’re like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. ~ Luigi Pirandello
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. ~ Win Borden
He who awaits much can expect little. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that. ~ Jacob K. Javits
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ~ Peter Marshall
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. ~ Madame C.J. Walker
Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait. ~ Charles Reade
It is the man who is waiting for his ship to come in that is always missing the boat. ~ Author Unknown
Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door…. You might not be home. ~ Jinger Heath
God will wait as long as it takes for us. ~ Roy W. Walters
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ~ Alexandre Dumas
People wait for opportunity to come along…yet it is there every morning. ~ Dennis the Menace
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future. ~ Emil Brunner
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You’ve got to get up and work at making your dreams come true. ~ Poh Yu Khing
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. ~ Thomas A. Edison Quotes
To fight fear, act. To increase fear — wait, put off postpone. ~ David J. Schwartz
Who longest waits most surely wins. ~ Helen Hunt Jackson