These Waiting quotes will inspire you. Waiting, to stay in place in expectation of AWAIT.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging waiting quotes, waiting sayings, and waiting proverbs.
Inspirational Waiting Quotes
- “Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we’re waiting for.” ~ Charles Stanley
- “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” ~ Leo Tolstoy , Waiting quotes for him
- “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” ~ Morris West
- “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.” ~ Henri Nouwen , Patiently Waiting quotes love
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.” ~ Oscar Wilde , Worth Waiting quotes
- “All good things come to those who wait.” ~ Paullina Simons
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“Waiting is one of the great arts.” ~ Margery Allingham
- “Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.” ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
- “A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.” ~ David Mitchell
- “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.” ~ Henri Nouwen
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“What is delayed is not lost.” ~ Juliette Drouet
- “Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” ~ J. G. Holland
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“One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.” ~ Che Guevara
- “But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.” ~ Teresa of Avila
- “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ~ Barack Obama
- “How much of human life is lost in waiting.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anonymous
- “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” ~ Stephen Levine
- “Serene I fold my hands and wait.” ~ Michelangelo
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“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.” ~ Walter Bargen
- “The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
- “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
- “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.” ~ William Mather Lewis
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“We are not born to wait. We are born to do.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” ~ Jack Canfield
- “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “During the night we must wait for the light.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- “When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” ~ George Harrison
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“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t wait the time is never just right.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The world is waiting for men with vision – it is not interested in mere pictures.” ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
- “If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.” ~ David Deida , Waiting quotes love
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“Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.” ~ Albert Camus
- “Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I’d move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I’d meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically – whether actually more realistic or not – I’d tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn’t anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” ~ Bradley Whitford
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“Infuse your life with action.” ~ Bradley Whitford
- “What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.” ~ Dorothee Solle
- “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living… Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “It’s better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.” ~ John G. Miller
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“we are the ones we have been waiting for” ~ Alice Walker
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
- “Somehow you’ll escape
all that waiting and staying.
You’ll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.” ~ Dr. Seuss -
“All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” ~ G. M. Trevelyan
- “In the rush of daily living, it’s easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.” ~ Barbara Sher
