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Waiting Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.”

Ivan Turgenev

Death, Fate, Life, Mortality, Waiting

2. “Toda mi vida ha sido una espera del inevitable encuentro contigo.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Fate, Waiting, Destiny, Life

3. “We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.”

Margaret Fuller

Waiting, Struggle, Triumph, Hope, Perseverance

4. “Well, I’ve been waiting, I was sure we’d meet between the trains we’re waiting for I think it’s time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter.”

Leonard Cohen

Destiny, Waiting, Journey, Uncertainty, Fate

5. “The Maestro says it’s Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you’re waiting for the miracle to come.”

Leonard Cohen

Expectation, Music, Perception, Waiting, Disillusionment

6. “Not to sleep during the night means to be aware every moment of your abnormality, and therefore I wait impatiently for morning and daylight, when I have the right not to sleep.”

Anton Chekhov

Insomnia, Awareness, Struggle, Night, Waiting

7. “I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.”

Gustave Flaubert

Patience, Limits, Endurance, Waiting, Restriction

8. “There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.”

Henrik Ibsen

Waiting, Hope, Victory, Life, Fate

9. “Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.”

Thomas Carlyle

Imperfection, Progress, Waiting, Change, Growth

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Waiting, Fate, Uncertainty, Fear

11. “Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.”

Max Lucado

Waiting, Prayer, Faith, Focus, Belief

12. “Sometimes God takes his time.”

Max Lucado

Patience, Faith, Divine Timing, Trust, Waiting

13. “Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience, Time, Waiting, Expectation, Achievement

14. “While you’re waiting, God’s working.”

Rick Warren

Patience, Faith, Waiting, God, Trust

15. “While you are waiting, God is working.”

Rick Warren

Patience, Faith, Waiting, God, Trust

16. “We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.”

Charles Spurgeon

Patience, Faith, Waiting, Grace, Trust

17. “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

Hope, Patience, Waiting, Future, Belief

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

Charles Spurgeon

Waiting, Patience, Faith, Submission, Spiritual Growth

19. “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

Joyce Meyer

Patience, Attitude, Waiting, Self-Control, Virtue

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

Joyce Meyer

Patience, Behavior, Waiting, Growth, Virtue

21. “We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.”

Joyce Meyer

Patience, Faith, Waiting, Spiritual Growth, Trust

22. “Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.”

Joyce Meyer

Enjoy Life, Perfection, Waiting, Present Moment, Fulfillment

23. “We don’t like waiting, but that’s when God does some of His best work on our souls.”

Charles R. Swindoll

Patience, Divine Timing, Spiritual Growth, Waiting, Faith

24. “Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”

Calvin Coolidge

Trouble, Patience, Caution, Problem-Solving, Waiting

25. “Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.”

Swami Vivekananda

Self-reliance, Action, Waiting, Effort, Hope

26. “When folks wants a fellow, it’s best to wait till they sends for him, I’ve found.”

William Faulkner

People, Patience, Life, Behavior, Waiting

27. “I'm patient.”

Michael Jordan

Patience, Endurance, Persistence, Temperance, Waiting

28. “It’s hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there’s something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there’s a whole story in who’s left behind.”

Jodi Picoult

Waiting, Loyalty, Emotional Struggle, Heroism, Personal Stories

29. “I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.”

Margaret Atwood

Self-composition, Waiting, Public Speaking, Identity Creation, Artifice

30. “As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”

Anne Rice

Oblivion, Waiting, Existential Contemplation, Acceptance, Time

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