Top 100 If You Wait Quotes
#1. Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.
Iyanla Vanzant
#2. They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.
Daniel Handler
#3. if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's
Rod Dreher
#4. one. If you wait to become a conqueror before you believe you are one, you are mistaken. You have to confess it first to become one. Faith's confessions create reality.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#5. If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.
Chris Pratt
#6. If you wait for love to give your life meaning, you will go through life without both
Linda Poindexter
#7. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Chuck Close
#8. The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Tom Peters
#9. The world is going to change, by default, but if you wait for the world to change you, the change will not be for the better.
Phillip Hale
#10. You don't get miracles. You can pray for them. You can wait for them. If you wait, life passes you by. You don't get miracles. If you're lucky, you get your life.
Michelle West
#11. If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
#12. I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
Alexandra Bracken
#13. Life just throws you places, and if you wait, if you listen, you can see the blessings.
Jaycee Clark
#14. I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.
Wendy Mass
#16. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
Mark Batterson
#17. The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.
Drake
#18. If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
C. JoyBell C.
#19. The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
Alan Moore
#20. If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.
Cynthia Lewis
#21. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Anne Fadiman
#22. If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road.
Stephen R. Covey
#23. If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.
Bill Phillips
#24. I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens
#25. If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
Seth Godin
#26. If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.
Asa Don Brown
#27. If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.
Willie Nelson
#28. If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.
Ron Kaufman
#29. Do whatever you like, go wherever you want, love however you feel it to be true. For if you wait, life won't do the same
Russ
#30. Live a little," she tells me. "You're never going to experience anything if you wait around for perfect conditions.
Katie Kacvinsky
#31. It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.
Gordon R. Sullivan
#33. If you wait long enough, suddenly nothing will happen
Jack Gardner
#34. I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
Junot Diaz
#35. Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
Keith Olbermann
#36. If you wait until all of your own issues are gone before helping others, it will never happen. This is a trap that millions have fallen into, not realizing that our own sanctification happens as we minister to others.
Francis Chan
#37. God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.
Mary Baker Eddy
#38. If you wait and watch, she's found, things so often reveal themselves, despite your adversary's best efforts.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#39. If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Sun Tzu
#41. If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
Timothy Keller
#42. Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.
John Flanagan
#43. If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
#45. If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.
Ella Higginson
#46. If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.
Ingrid Michaelson
#47. If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
James Cameron
#48. If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.
Rajneesh
#49. Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#50. I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.
Marc Maron
#51. 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
#52. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtry
#53. Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.
Keysha Jade
#54. There's no magic ruler by which we're all judged and weighed, not in this life. If you wait for someone to tell you it's time to grow up, you'll wait forever. Some people, quite happily, do just that. They don't do anything until they're forced to by circumstance
Heidi Cullinan
#55. If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.
Brendan Halpin
#56. If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.
Steve McCurry
#57. If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
Seth Godin
#58. The thing about dark skies and rainy days is that, if you wait long enough, the sun will always shine again.
Leah Atwood
#59. Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
Patricia Briggs
#60. You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.
Khaled Hosseini
#61. If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
Suze Orman
#62. Death will come if you wait long enough...Hopefully, it'll be a long wait!
David A. Frazier
#63. Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Dean Wareham
#64. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.
Frederick Lenz
#65. 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
#66. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Mark Miller
#67. If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, Hey, here's 10 more songs.
Craig Finn
#68. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward De Bono
#69. Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life
John Flanagan
#70. The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.
Brian McGrory
#71. If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
Maxwell Maltz
#73. If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.
Nelly Furtado
#75. If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all.
Nadia Hashimi
#76. Things are always different than what they might be ... If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
Henry James
#77. If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time
Jennifer Donnelly
#78. Maybe sometimes you have to leave before you're ready to let go; sometimes you have to leave before someone is ready to let go of you. That's the rub of it-if you wait until you're ready to do everything, you'll never get anything done.
Amy Reed
#79. If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.
Lysa TerKeurst
#80. If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
Fran Tarkenton
#81. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter
#82. Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
Laura Lang
#83. An opportunity always comes before a change. If you wait for a change to occur in order to grab an opportunity, you'll lose all opportunities coming your way.
Robin Sacredfire
#84. If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.
Anonymous
#85. I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
Margaret Atwood
#87. Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi
#88. The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.
Arthur Caplan
#89. The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
Mario Andretti
#90. If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.
Suze Orman
#91. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
#92. The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs
#93. If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.
Dhaval Gajera
#94. If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear.
Chelsea Handler
#95. If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. Don't worry, I plan on living a long time."
"Why are you making a bucket list, then?"
"Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.
Gayle Forman
#97. If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
Mikhail Tal
#98. Lore, if you wait for the right moment, you'll wait forever.
Nicola Griffith
#99. It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#100. If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
Stuart Rose
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