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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Joyce Meyer

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

- Leo Tolstoy

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Napoleon Hill

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

- Saadi

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

- Billy Graham

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

- John Quincy Adams

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

- Phillips Brooks

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

- Lao Tzu

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

- Elon Musk

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

- Tertullian

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

- Arnold H. Glasow

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

- Edith Sitwell

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Genius is patience.

- Isaac Newton

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

- Evelyn Underhill

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

- Erik Erikson

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

- William Penn

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

- George Jackson

I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

- Matt Lauer

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

- Hal Borland

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

- John Ruskin

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

- Edmund Burke

Patience is the secret to good food.

- Gail Simmons

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

- George Savile

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- E. Joseph Cossman

Beware the fury of a patient man.

- John Dryden

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

- Jean de La Fontaine

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

- Isaac Newton

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

- William Golding

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Genius is eternal patience.

- Michelangelo

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

- Dorothea Dix

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

- Henri Nouwen

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

- Nadia Comaneci

Humility is attentive patience.

- Simone Weil

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

- Thomas Huxley

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

- Tokugawa Ieyasu

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

- Saina Nehwal

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

- Drake

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

- Brett Hull

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

- Virgil

The very important thing you should have is patience.

- Jack Ma

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

- Hrithik Roshan

I'm patient.

- Michael Jordan

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

- Kevin Hart

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

- Francis Bacon

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

- Hyman Rickover

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

- Douglas Rushkoff

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

- Mark Manson

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

- Robert Herjavec

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

- Lizz Wright

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

- Ambrose Bierce

The principle part of faith is patience.

- George MacDonald

I still have to work on patience.

- Robert Mueller

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

- Adam West

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

- Robert Falcon Scott

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

- Thomas a Kempis

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

- William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

- William Shakespeare

He that can have patience can have what he will.

- Benjamin Franklin

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

- Barbara Johnson

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

- Plautus

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

- Robert Wise

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

- Eknath Easwaran

Endurance is patience concentrated.

- Thomas Carlyle

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

- Laurence J. Peter

God always has patience.

- Pope Francis

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

- Homer

I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

- Banks

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

- Franklin P. Jones

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

- David Duchovny

Patience is the art of hoping.

- Luc de Clapiers

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

- Ambrose Bierce

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

- Hermann Hesse

I have no patience for wasting time.

- William Clay Ford, Jr.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

- Gail Simmons

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

- Harsha Bhogle

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

- Henry Rollins

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

- Rudyard Kipling

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

- Peter Marshall

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

- George Santayana

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

- Helen Hayes

I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

- Jennifer Garner

There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

- Columbus Short

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

- Thomas Hardy

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

- James Russell Lowell

Find patience in the breath of life.

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

- Matthew Arnold

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

- T. Boone Pickens

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

- Bret Harte

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

- Eve Arden

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

- Thomas Kaplan

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

- Philip Massinger

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

- Tom Brady

Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

- Chris Pine

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

- Kin Hubbard

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

- Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

- Thomas Fuller

Patience is the best medicine.

- John Florio

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.

- Shawn Michaels

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

- Carl Hiaasen

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

- Judith Light

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

- Lincoln Diaz-Balart

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

- Ilie Nastase

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

- Brett Eldredge

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

- Tyrone Power

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

- Harry Shum, Jr.

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

- Tate Donovan

Patience is passion tamed.

- Lyman Abbott

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.

- Zac Posen

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

- John Updike

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

- Iman

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

- Kevin Garnett

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

- Phaedrus

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

- Phaedrus

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

- Lindsey Vonn

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

- Stanley A. McChrystal

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

- Bob Woodward

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

- Lyle Lovett

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

- Michael Douglas

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

- Ingmar Bergman

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

- Gene Green

Patience was not my strong point.

- Lauren Bacall

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

- Andre Aciman

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

- Faith Hill

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

- Angelique Kerber

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

- Josh Turner

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

- Dick Dale

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

- Niki Taylor

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

- Don Cornelius

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

- Larry Hagman

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

- Christina Milian

For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.

- Jason Day

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

- Jason Day

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

- Rita Ora

Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience.

- Rza

I wish I had more patience.

- Toni Collette

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

- Guy Kawasaki

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

- Yingluck Shinawatra

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

- Tom Lantos

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

- Jon Favreau

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

- Greg Behrendt

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

- Lexa Doig

I'm terrible with patience.

- Katherine Heigl

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

- Wilkie Collins

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

- Nargis Fakhri

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

- Mohammad Azharuddin

Patience is sorrow's salve.

- Charles Churchill

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

- Kathleen Wynne

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

- Debra Winger

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

- Mike D

There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.

- Elif Batuman

Patience pays off.

- Mayte Garcia

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

- Henry George Bohn

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

- Michael Tubbs

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

- N. Murray Edwards

I have no patience at all.

- Alan Sugar

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

- Holbrook Jackson

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

- Pete Docter

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

- Damian Lewis

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

- Carmen Busquets

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

- Zoe Kazan

Being a runner has brought me a lot of patience, and patience goes a long way in life.

- Tori Bowie

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

- Brett Ratner

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

- Dave Navarro

I don't have much patience with sick people.

- Maura Tierney

I've said my patience is not infinite.

- Darrell Issa

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

- Andrew Greeley

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

- Vladimir Kramnik

When it comes to work, I have a lot of patience, but otherwise, I am quite impatient.

- Kratika Sengar

I haven't got a lot of patience.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg

Patience has never been my strong suit.

- Michael Chiklis

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

- Mona Singh

I have very little patience with children.

- Mem Fox

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

- Ray Harryhausen

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

- Yiannis Stournaras

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

- John C. Wright

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

- Eden Phillpotts

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

- Joseph Campbell

There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.

- John Osborne

Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

- Zoe Kazan

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

- Craig Bruce

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

- Steven Brust

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

- Mary Gordon

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

- Sharon Begley

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

- Matthew Arnold

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

- Fran Lebowitz

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

- Paulo Coelho

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won’t do me any good.

- Amber Liu

There’s two times of the year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

- Darius Rucker

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

- Karen Salmansohn

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

- Robert Falcon Scott

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

- Tom Stoppard

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

- John Mason Brown

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

- Simon Sinek

What is delayed is not lost.

- Juliette Drouet

Patience is learned through waiting.

- E’yen A. Gardner

Waiting is a means of acquiring patience.

- Adrian Thatcher

You don’t get everything all at once. You wait.

- Elizabeth Berg

You don’t waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

- Reba McEntire

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

- Paulo Coelho

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Morris West

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

- Anna Neagle

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

- Billy Graham

Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

- Marianne Williamson

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Stephen Levine

Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.

- Donald Miller

You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

- A. A. Milne

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

- Ian Mckellen

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

- Robert H. Schuller

I want to do things – scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I’m an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.

- Teri Polo

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

- Gary Ryan Blair

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

- George W. Cecil

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

- Melody Beattie

Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for the fun to show up, you’ll find yourself going without it more often than not.

- Jill Biden

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Jules Renard

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

- Elizabeth Taylor

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move – and he, in turn, waits for you.

- Marian Anderson

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

- Henri Nouwen

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

- Bradley Whitford

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

- Anna Neagle

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

- Ian McEwan

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

- Ogwo David Emenike

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

- Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes one does wonder if one lives quietly from choice or if in reality one is merely waiting for something that may never come.

- Mary Balogh

Waiting for someone is a terrible time, and feeling that we cannot describe in words.

- Ehsan Sehgal

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you; you have to go for it.

- Israelmore Ayivor

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

I can have patience for anything, but it’s waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

- Anthony Liccione

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

- Cesare Pavese

Don’t waste the waiting.

- Sadie Huff

And sure enough even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.

- William Faulkner

You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.

- Mandy Hale

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

- Charles Stanley

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

- Joyce Meyer

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

- J. B. Priestley

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

- Tina Fey

When that day comes, we’ll be waiting. Waiting for Charlie St. Cloud to come home to us. Until then we offer these parting words… May he live in peace.

- Ben Sherwood

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

- Khaled Hosseini

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

- Sophia Amoruso

Jon warned me that sometimes this took great patience—even years. ‘But in the end,’ he said, ‘people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come.

- Randy Pausch

It was lovely to realize that while the fat farmer was sitting up there on the hill waiting for them to starve, he was also giving them their dinner without knowing it.

- Roald Dahl

She crept back into the silent house, past the closed bedroom door inside which the other mother and the other father […] what? she wondered. Slept? Waited?

- Neil Gaiman

Nate had been spying on the candy shop for almost thirty minutes. His hour had to be waning. If he was going to risk a direct assault on the shop, he knew it was now or never.

- Brandon Mull

We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. …In an instant, all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

- Samuel Beckett

Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

- Napoleon Hill

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Napoleon Hill

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

- Robert H. Schuller

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

- John Quincy Adams

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

- George Savile

He that can have patience can have what he will.

- Benjamin Franklin

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

- Saadi

Patience is the art of hoping.

- Luc de Clapiers

Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

- Mary Pierce

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

- Joseph Addison

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

All good things come to those who wait.

- Paullina Simons

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

- Charles Spurgeon

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

- J. G. Holland

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

- William S. Burroughs

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

- Tara Brach

Waiting is learning, learning is waiting.

- Lin Min-Tzu

Waiting is just the period of time right before action!

- Jennifer J. Weiss

Waiting is something we all do, whether it is waiting in line, waiting for a stoplight or just waiting for the days, hours and minutes to pass.

- Bruce Wright

This silence belongs to us… and every single person out there, is waiting for us to fill it with something.

- Kousei Arima

Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.

- John Taylor Gatto

Sometimes we sit around waiting for someone or a situation to change but patience isn’t always the answer sometimes you just need to change your direction and approach.

- Hopal Green

If something is not going well in your life, you can be sure that you’re not on the move but waiting for something! The way to fix things is action, not standing still!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Life’s too short to wait, but sometimes, a few things, a few people, a few magicks, a few miracles are worth the wait.

- Radhika Mundra

Waiting earns two results; disappointment or enjoyment.

- Ehsan Sehgal

We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed

- Louise Glück

For a moment with you, I wait an eternity.

- Caroline George

There is no worship like waiting on God.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a hero in every heart just waiting for ignition.

- Sijin Bt

I’ll be here when you get back.

- Ally Carter

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

- Jessica Clare

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

- Maurice Chevalier

I have enough patience to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

- Alan Cohen

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

- Ashay Abbhi

Remember it is your choice; you can either wait for someone or end someone’s waiting.

- M.F. Moonzajer

It takes patience to make a man – the patience to listen, watch and wait.

- Ogwo David Emenike

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

- David Jeremiah

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

- Jocelyn Murray

All things come to him who waits.

- Woodrow Wilson

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that’s waiting.

- Michael W. Smith

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

- John Ortberg

Waiting is our active response to the intrinsically ethical sociality of being.

- Joshua B. Davis

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

- R.S. Thomas

Waiting is one of the great arts.

- Margery Allingham

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

- Charles Spurgeon

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

- Mandy Hale

Waiting indicates that we are engaged in, and have expectations from, life; that we are on the lookout for what life is going to throw our way.

- Ghassan Hage

Waiting is not a mere empty hope. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

- I Ching

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

- Novalis

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I’ve been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

- Camryn Manheim

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

- Khaled Hosseini

I’m always open to new stuff. I don’t sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

- Neil Young

I will not rule out anything. I don’t speculate on my own future. I’ll wait and see what happens.

- Tyrone Willingham

If you want something you have to wait.

- Lemar

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

- Dean Koontz

I’m sure great scripts are hard to find, but I’m definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

- Lenny Kravitz

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

- Vernon Howard

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

- John Piper

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.

- Brian Tracy

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: “You have to fight fire with fire” so that I could reply, “That’s funny-I always use water.”

- Howard Gossage

The resurrection and the judgement will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait!

- David Berg

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

- Steven Wright

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

- Trey Anastasio

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I’m basically waiting for orders as it were.

- John McLaughlin

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

- Kate del Castillo

I never sit down to write or say, “Today, I have to record something.” I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

- Lenny Kravitz

Waiting, like nothing else, reveals our complex human relationship with time.

- Margaret Whipp

What really matters is the cost of one’s waiting experience, not just in money but in frustration, anger, and other stresses.

- Harold Schweizer

What matter if I stand alone? / I wait with joy the coming years; / My heart shall reap where it hath sown, / And garner up its fruit of tears.

- John Burroughs

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

- Paulo Coelho

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

- Chuck Palahniuk

Being supportive often means waiting and listening and more waiting until you’re better able to understand the drama.

- Fred Rogers

We’ve been waiting for seven hundred years, you can have the seven minutes.

- Michael Collins

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

- De Maistre

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

- Edward de Bono

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

- Jules Verne

I just work – however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I’m waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don’t need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

- Nick Cannon

I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

- Luther Allison

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. ‘When’s he coming? He’s taking a long time, isn’t he?’

- Samantha Fox

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

- Percy Ross

I don’t sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I’m going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

- Compay Segundo

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges – waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That’s just the nature of life.

- Amy Grant

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

- Vernon Howard

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It’s patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

- Mohnish Pabrai

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

- Karl Lagerfeld

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

- Melina Marchetta

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

- Neal Shusterman

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

- Ann Patchett

...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

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

If you’re still waiting for it, it means you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

- Mandy Hale

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

- Mandy Hale

Don’t wait to be compelled to do great work.

- Richie Norton

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

- Patrick Carman

You have a direct line to Christ; He’s waiting for your call. HS/el

- Evinda Lepins

Waiting is a risk to something or nothing; it’s on your own decision if you’ll stay and still with your patience.

- Kent Ian N. Cny

If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.

- M.F. Moonzajer

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won’t be ready for anything if you aren’t ready to be you.

- Kaiden Blake

But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

- Lois Lowry

Goals don’t leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

- Amit Kalantri

Patience always gives you the best reward when the time is right.

- Muhammad Imran Hasan

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

- Grace Fiorre

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

- Primo Levi

Wait and wait. Most people’s lives are spent waiting.

- Sherwood Anderson

Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.

- Bryant McGill

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. Start stuff.

- Richie Norton

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie

- Galt Niederhoffer

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

- Ryan Lilly

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends.

- Israelmore Ayivor

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright.

- Elisabeth Elliot

Never wake up waiting to hear a command from someone before you make a move; be responsible!

- Israelmore Ayivor

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waited to be forgotten

- John Daniel Thieme

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

- Bryant McGill

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