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Quotes About Waiting

I've seen bright, intelligent girls, waiting and hoping…" She shakes her head. "They know deep down he'll never come back." "So why do they hope?" I can't help asking. "Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.
~ Sophie Kinsella
One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
~ Sophocles
If I thought you would blurt out such absurdities, you'd have died waiting before I'd had you summoned.
~ Sophocles
Learn to labour and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
~ Jan Karon
Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
~ Voltaire
That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.
~ Avijeet Das
People who don't have patience don't achieve anything in life.
~ Sunday Adelaja
In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.#Fatalist
~ Saru Singhal
I waited for something, something died.So I waited for nothing, Nothing arrived.
~ Villagers
It only takes patience to live through this life.
~ Auliq-Ice
Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.
~ Munia Khan
Half awake and almost dead. But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...Waiting for a miracle to happen.
~ M.L van de Weetering
And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.
~ Alamvusha
With prayer of thanks, I wait in patient for God to act.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.
~ Laura Teresa Marquez
Waiting is often the best part of the story, " he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.
~ Ella Frank, Blind Obsession
Waiting for God to give you want He has ALREADY decided for you and waiting for someone to decide on you--is NOT the same.
~ Adrianne D. Pless
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
~ Jacob Nordby
. . . God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his State is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.
~ John Milton
Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.
~ John Milton
True trust always involves an element of waiting. It means believing in results that we cannot see. A determination to have the results I want now is a major sign of an inability to trust.
~ John N. Oswalt
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
~ John Osborne