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Waiting Quotes

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Most of us are really good at finding reasons to wait.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.     — Anna Neagle

We wait to call good friends we miss because we assume we’ll have plenty of time.

All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.     — Woodrow T. Wilson

We wait to apologize for the things we’ve done because we feel too stubborn or ashamed to admit fault.

Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.     — Charles Richter

I’m single for a reason waiting on the right one to come along.

If we’re not careful, we can spend our whole lives making excuses, holding off until a better time, only to eventually realize that time never came.

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.

If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.     — Win Borden

But we can know that in our final moments, it’s unlikely we’ll say, “I wish I waited longer,” or “I wish I stayed angry longer,” or “I wish I played it safe longer.”

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.     — John Ortberg

Waiting Quotes

This is our chance to live and love. This moment is our only guaranteed opportunity to be thoughtful, compassionate, understanding, forgiving, and kind to the people we value.

Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.

We owe it to ourselves to acknowledge it is, and to do something about it instead of building up reasons to regret.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.     — Senegalese Proverb

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.     — Gian Carlo Menotti

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“Human history has been recorded as a succession of wars and changing empires. But a ray of hope has been carried forth throughout the ages by dreamers who have envisioned a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. The Magna Carta, the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were quantum leaps forward in our collective quest for a better world. We still have far to go, but we can help create that better world countless dreamers have imagined, wished for and endeavored to make come true. Every moment has brought us to this moment. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for to manifest our shared peacetopian dream.” — Robert Alan Silverstein

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is to have someone worth waiting for.     — Unknown

Waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.     — Neil Gaiman

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common–this is my symphony. — William Henry Channing

I’m waiting for the day when you’ll tell me that you’re thinking about me all the time.

Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.     — Donald Miller

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

“We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.” ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. – Kat Graham

“Sometimes we think we need answer’s but most of the time it´s just better to walk away,and try to get on with your life.”

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.     — Robert Anthony

Every minute feels like an hour, every hour feels like a day, every day feels like forever, but I will wait forever and a day for you.

“The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed…. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.” ~ Al Gore

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“Love cannot be forgotten, it can only be ignored long enough until ignoring it becomes routine.”

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.     — J. G. Holland

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We’re like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

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

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen’; but it’s even harder to give up when you think it’s everything you want.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it’s the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. Joichi Ito

The waiting time, my brothers,

Is the hardest time of all.

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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Waiting [is] the great vocation of the dispossessed.

It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen’; but it’s even harder to give up when you think it’s everything you want.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it. John Lewis

When you are waiting for a train, don’t keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey’s end at precisely the same time as those who “fuss” continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

“It’s hard being left behind. (…) It’s hard to be the one who stays.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

Just because something isn’t happening for you right now, doesn’t mean it will never happen.

Don’t wait 30 years to tell someone you had a crush on them. In fact, don’t wait 30 seconds.

“If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)” ― Jeaniene Frost

In life you don’t have to struggle to get true love just be patient and it will follow you

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was. GG Allin

I’m single because I’m waiting for the right time in the right place with the right person.

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Don’t wait for someone to make you happy. Make yourself happy and one day someone will be happy to have you.

The worst feeling ever is not knowing whether you should wait or give up.

According to the Bible, Love never fails. So if it fails, it wasn’t love yet.

“For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.At least by the person who’s waiting.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

Real love trusts, Mature love understands and True love waits.

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