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Quotes About Waiting

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.
~ Habeeb Akande
Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.
~ Billy Mays
When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.
~ Jim Beaver
It's complicated, but it's part of life - play, be a substitute, wait for your time.
~ Wissam Ben Yedder
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
~ Turkish proverb
Patience is the key to paradise.
~ Turkish proverb
Don't try to be seen, God may be hiding you on purpose.
~ Tyler Perry
But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day?
~ Unknown
She (or he!) who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see a plant, believes in God
~ Unknown
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile
~ Unknown
Love is not a thing you can do,when you do other things love will happen.
~ Unknown
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
~ Unknown
Use disappointments as material for patience.
~ Unknown
Patience is a virtue, you tell yourself. Good things come to those who wait. You never before realized how many aphorisms are just attempts to convince the agitated not to act.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
~ V.S. Naipaul
He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting for the wrong train, and vanishes
~ V.S. Pritchett
Where one waits for that peremptory, half-melancholy, half-majestic sound of a ship blowing as she silently glides out black in the night, almost through the pub yard, from the docks basin on her voyage.
~ V.S. Pritchett
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
~ Vanessa Paradis
Patience is being friends with Time.
~ Vanna Bonta
At the Konya bus station
~ Vendela Vida
Sometimes," Father Dibue said, "though everything is in the Lord's Hands, undoubtedly, there's the urgent need to administer the Holy Sacrament of the Last Rites. Otherwise, the humble servant of the Lord lingers, such as now, waiting for grace, for absolution.
~ Vera Nazarian
I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.
~ Phyllis Diller
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
~ Adam Young
The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum, not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.
~ Akilnathan Logeswaran