Waiting Quotes

• Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

  Charles Stanley

  Objects, Willingness, Values

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• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Time, Know How

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1123, Leo Tolstoy

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• Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Patience, Ability

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• The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5367, Bible Study Steps

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Patience, Art, Art Is

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• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

  Morris West

  Happiness, Summer, Christian

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Expectations, Foundation

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream

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• 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

  Fighting, Wells, Ifs

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• Waiting is one of the great arts.

  Margery Allingham

  Art, Self Control, Great Art

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• 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

  People, Bigs

  Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Cowley Publications

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• 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

  Inspiring, Moving, Fall

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Believe, World

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• If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Positivity, Ready

  "The Ersatz Elevator". Book by Daniel Handler, February 20, 2001.

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• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Matter

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Veronika Decides to Die”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Friday, Uncles, Night

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• All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patience, Be Patient, All Things

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• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life". Book by Francis Arthur Jones, 1908.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Imagination, World

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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