Waiting Quotes

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

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

All things come to him who waits

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

We'll grow old waiting.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.