Top 40 Quotes About Waiting (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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2. “Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.”

— Marianne Williamson

3. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!”

— Aryn Kyle

4. “Time waits for no one.”

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

5. “Keep working. Don’t wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.”

— Michael Crichton

6. “Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

7. “Don’t wait for change. You change.”

— Earl Nightingale

8. “Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”

— Elvis Presley

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9. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.”

— Napoleon Hill

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10. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”

— Abdul Kalam

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11. “People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

12. “Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.”

— Francis of Assisi

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13. “Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?”

— Napoleon Hill

14. “Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.”

— Janis Joplin

15. “I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”

— Hermann Hesse

16. “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

— Leo Tolstoy

17. “Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”

— William Arthur Ward

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18. “Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.”

— Gloria Steinem

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19. “The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”

— John C. Maxwell

20. “Your wealth is waiting for you in the invisible, and to bring it into the visible, think wealth!”

— Rhonda Byrne

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21. “I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

— Og Mandino

22. “Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”

— Rumi

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23. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”

— Khalil Gibran

24. “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Haruki Murakami

25. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

26. “There’s always gonna be another mountain, I’m always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose, Ain’t about how fast I get there, Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side, It’s the climb.”

— Miley Cyrus

27. “Just can’t wait to get on the road again.”

— Willie Nelson

28. “Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.”

— Charles Bukowski

29. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”

— Bruce Springsteen

30. “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

— Haruki Murakami

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31. “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

— Werner Heisenberg

32. “Don’t you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!”

— Ken Watanabe

33. “I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!”

— William Booth

34. “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”

— Robert Frost

35. “I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”

— Langston Hughes

36. “There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”

— Rhonda Byrne

37. “It’s time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?”

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

38. “All truths wait in all things.”

— Walt Whitman

39. “Will you wait for me forever?”

— Haruki Murakami

40. “I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.”

— Niall Horan