Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Learning, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

• Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Justice, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.697, Library of America

• For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Voice, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Men, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

• Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Healing, Heart, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

• Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Success, Waiting, Excellence

• Learn to labour and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Waiting, Labour

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838).

• All things come round to him who will but wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Waiting, All Things

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

• Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Waiting, Rising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.352, Library of America

• Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Lessons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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