Waiting

Sir John Lubbock

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much of human life is lost in waiting?

Peter Marshall

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Paul J. Meyer

Opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Orison Swett Marden

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Napoleon Hill

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.

John Mason Brown

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

Jean Paul Richter

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Jack Canfield

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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He who awaits much can expect little.

Frank C. Bucaro

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much of human life is lost in waiting?

Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Benjamin Franklin

If you have time, don't wait for time.

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Cardinal J. Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Woodrow T. Wilson

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.