Waiting quotes
4.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going."
"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."
"Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle."
"Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize."
"I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?"
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"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."
"Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you."
"You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step"
"Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves."
"Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea."
"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now."
"Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city."
"so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache."
"Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."
"Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead."
"Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong."
"If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone."
"The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to."
"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting."
"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen."
"This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire."
"Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve."
"There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago."
"I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain."
"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones."
