Quotes about Waiting

Waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel?
Well stride down there and light the damn
thing yourself!

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

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.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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.

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.

Don't wait. Don't tell the story later.
Life is so short. This stretch of sea and sand, this walk on the shore, before the tide covers everything we have done.
I love you.
The three most difficult words in the world.
But what else can I say?

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. 

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Don't let yourself fall in love with somebody just to say that you've falling in love.  Wait and hope for the kind of guy you dream of.

Don't let your age or your circumstances diminish the way you dream.  Wait and hope.

Don't lower your standard just to have a guy in your arms or a vase full of flowers in your dresser.  Wait and hope.

Don't let your fear make you ignore the deepest dreams in your heart.  Wait and hope.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Sex can be a microcosm of life. Some good times, some bad times and a whole ot of waiting in between.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The man who always says goodbye is waiting for something to happen.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

"Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never..."

Knowledge is power. What are you waiting for? Get empowered!