Waiting Quotes

• The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Patience, Art, Art Is

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• 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

  Faces, Helping, Tomorrow

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• Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Looks, Patient

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Fate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspiration, Waste, Wasting Time

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.620, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream

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• We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Order, World, Leisure

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• I watched a rose-bud very long
  Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
  Waiting to see the perfect flower:
  Then when I thought it should be strong
  It opened at the matin hour
  And fell at even-song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Strong, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1677, Delphi Classics

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• I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Silence, Trying

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Jane (Ch. 28), October 16, 1847.

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Patience, Ability

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5367, Bible Study Steps

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• Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

  Charles Stanley

  Objects, Willingness, Values

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• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

  Morris West

  Happiness, Summer, Christian

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

  Teresa of Avila

  Facts, Longing, Seems

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

  William Mather Lewis

  Inspirational, Sad, Break Up

  "Abiding Values".

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• He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Depth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• Serene I fold my hands and wait.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Rave, Serene

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• ...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Humility, Doors, Giving

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 24, 2010

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• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Matter

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Veronika Decides to Die”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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