Quotes About Waiting

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

My dearest,' said Valentine, 'has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words – "wait" and "hope"?

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

He called successively at the abodes of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Neither of them had returned.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait and hope.' Your friend

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God designs to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - Wait and hope. - Edmond Dantès

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Delays only double grief when one has to part ...

all human wisdom is contained in the words 'wait and hope!

So, do live and be happy, children dear to my heart, and never forget that, until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'!

Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.

Do you know what you have done, wise as you are? I have waited a month, which means I have suffered a month. I hoped-man is such a poor and miserable creature-I hoped, for what? I don't know: something unimaginable, absurd, senseless, a miracle...but what? God alone knows, for it was He who diluted our reason with that madness called hope.

Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'wait' and 'hope'.

Sir, you are punctual, and I cannot complain that you have broken your promise; but oh, how the time has dragged, and how long it has seemed before the clock struck six!

sino al giorno in cui Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo l'avvenire, l'intera saggezza umana risiederà in queste due parole: Attendere e sperare!

and left the table, to return a few moments later

So, do live and be happy, children dear to my heart, and never forget that, until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'!

Fino a quel giorno che Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo il futuro, tutta la saggezza umana sarà in queste due parole: aspettare e sperare!

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.