Better To Wait Quotes

#1. If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

Frederick Lenz

#2. In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

Joseph Priestley

#3. Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashed
against the stones.

Paul Auster

#4. It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Steve McConnell

#5. The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

#6. Better to wait actively than passively.

Stephen L. Carter

#7. Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

Charles Bukowski

#9. One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have little reservation about killing the unborn, while the average Conservative feels it is better to wait until after they are born before we kill them.

Derek R. Audette

#10. Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12. Change doesn't come
without invitation.
You won't discover it in
routine. And you won't
create an all-new and better you if you wait for someone else
to give you permission. Transformation begins -
and ends - inside of you.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. Can you not be content to wait a little? Will not your Lord's time - be better than your time?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Better to live vigorously, better to fight, than to simply wait for the end...in peace.

Jack Donovan

#15. Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.

Karen S. Shelton

#16. Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

Adam Cappa

#17. Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

Christopher Pike

#18. There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different.

Norman Foster

#19. Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.

Vijay Singh

#21. I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

George Brett

#22. Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm ... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

Freeman Dyson

#23. If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

Nelly Furtado

#24. The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

Jeremy Grantham

#25. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.

Marilyn Grey

#26. In other words, he looked like uniformed police hotness, and she wasn't entirely uninterested in being cuffed. Wait. That's a bad thought. I don't mean it. She took him in again, her throat suddenly dry. Well, she didn't exactly not mean it, but she knew better than to want it.

Cindi Madsen

#27. If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time

Jennifer Donnelly

#28. Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. I've always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. 'Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now?'" She had a fine voice for reciting poetry, deep-timbered and slow. "Doesn't that just make everything better?

Brittany Cavallaro

#31. You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times,
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you.
But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry,
Is how long must I wait to be with you.

MercyMe

#32. A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and the bracken and wait quietly for death.

Barbara Pym

#33. The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.

Red Army Faction

#34. If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Cher

#35. Advisory: If your husband catches an ebolavirus, give him food and water and love and maybe prayers but keep your distance, wait patiently, hope for the best-- and, if he dies, don't clean out his bowels by hand. Better to step back, blow a kiss, and burn the hut.

David Quammen

#36. If you knew this, why did you wait to bring it before the Omegrion? (Savitar) Because I was afraid to come forward ... (Zack) And now you're all better? (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

#38. Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Phil Harding

#39. I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

Derrick Rose

#40. If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Wayne Dyer

#41. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

#42. People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

Cynthia Lord

#43. It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

Jack Welch

#44. Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!

Deyth Banger

#45. You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem.
Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem.
Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Richelle Mead

#46. It better to change yourself instead of wait for others to change for you ...
Parvez3786

H. Parvez

#47. If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Marc Andreessen

#48. I recently have gotten into juicing as an in-between-meals snack. I think the more vegetable ingredients the better, especially if they are green. I find that a good juice can really curb my appetite when I need to wait for the next meal.

Noureen DeWulf

#49. My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

Tina Barney

#50. Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.

Oliver DeMille

#51. I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

Felicity Huffman

#52. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

Andy Weir

#53. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Robin Leach

#54. I wait for relief to come, but instead I feel worse. That's because doing the right thing is like medicine. It may taste awful, but you know it's good for you and that in the end you'll be better off.

Kathy McCullough

#55. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You'll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians.

Dan Alatorre

#56. They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

Sergio Martinez

#57. I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Lukas Haas

#58. Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.

Lindsay Wagner

#59. Better advice is to wait and chase God. While you're waiting for the love of your life, pursue God.

Kelsey Kupecky

#60. Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Sharon Gannon

#61. A Peaceful and Free Tibet ... makes a better & brighter humanity. Let's not wait till tomorrow ... to start building a brighter, better world!

Timothy Pina

#62. You almost can't wait too long to get married. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#63. I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

Roger Moore

#64. Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

Elisabeth Leseur

#65. You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.

Joel Osteen

#66. It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.

Anis Mojgani

#67. Where better for us to wait until the Wheel weaves us out in new lives than in the World of Dreams?

Robert Jordan

#68. Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there's no hope.

Noelle Adams

#69. And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do, beyond suffering, was wait and see what might be going to happen next.

Richard Yates

#70. As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

Robert Breault

#71. It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Alexandre Dumas

#72. I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

William Baldwin

#73. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

Nick Denton

#74. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

Mike Huckabee

#75. It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

Eberhard Weber

#76. You'll have to let go and wait for something better.'
'What if there isn't anything better?'
'There's always something better.

O.E. Boroni

#77. I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#78. It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

John G. Miller

#79. Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Joel Osteen

#80. They'd all do better if they could get past the storm and wait for the rainbow to appear.

Cecilia London

#81. I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food ... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook.

Suki Waterhouse

#82. Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who work for it!!

Sam Houssami

#83. You don't need to wait for that second chance, because every second is a chance to change your life for the better.

Jeanette Coron

#84. Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.

Kenneth O. Gangel

#85. To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday.

Yasser Kashef

#86. You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.

V.C. Andrews

#87. People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.

V.C. Andrews

#88. When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Anonymous

#89. When you know what's going to be happen, its better to move away than waiting for things to happen.

Nutan Bajracharya

#90. When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

Andrew Young

#91. Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

Robin Hobb

#92. If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

Trip Hawkins

#93. Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

Alan Lightman

#94. My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.

Sarah Steele

#95. Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

Rick Mercer

#96. In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.

Peter H. Fogtdal

#97. There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

Louisa May Alcott

#98. When you meet the one person who gives your life meaning, who makes you a better man so you can be worthy of her love, you don't wait for the "right time" to come along. You jump. You run. You fly. "Has

Mia Asher

#99. No! Wait! I've got a better idea ... "
"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock."
"And your point is ... "
"Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

Howard Tayler

#100. Good things come to those who wait,
better things to those who toil,
and great things to those who endure.

Matshona Dhliwayo