Instead Of Waiting Quotes

#1. Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

Kaiden Blake

#2. You plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. In other words, take responsibility for your own needs and your own happiness.

Maggi Myers

#3. To fulfill our lives and be happy, we have to enjoy the little things, see the beauty around us instead of waiting for big things to enjoy, or you will just pass life by waiting.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

Roger Federer

#6. In general the parallel between the popular uses of music and of pictures is close enough. Both consist of 'using' rather than 'receiving'. Both rush hastily forward to do things with the work of art instead of waiting for it to do something to them.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Its better to change yourself instead of waiting for others to change for you.

Parvez3786

#8. Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. What ever it is, I know I have to find it, instead of waiting for it to find me.

Michael Cho

#10. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

Paul Arden

#11. I could have taken a nap instead of waiting for you to finally show up. What took you so long human? Did you walk?
-Grimalkin

Julie Kagawa

#12. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

Al Yankovic

#13. If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

Peter Facinelli

#15. War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

Kenneth Waltz

#16. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#17. Consciousness is anything you define it as. I tell people instead of waiting, just take any definition that you like, and use that, and run with it! So I don't think the issue is that we don't know what consciousness is. The issue is we don't have a consensus on what consciousness is. Far from it.

Stanley Krippner

#18. E were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

Helen Fielding

#19. The key to project success is being proactive. Instead of waiting for others to tell you what to do,

Stanley E. Portny

#20. You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Russell Simmons

#21. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

Jodi Picoult

#22. For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.

Roberto Bolano

#23. Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Bill Frist

#24. Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way ...

Paul Arden

#25. So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

#26. We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

Herbie Hancock

#27. What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.

Trip Lee

#28. Hide and Seek
It's hard not
to jump out
instead of waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.

Kay Ryan

#29. Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

Oliver DeMille

#30. Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner.

Edward De Bono

#31. I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.

Mark Hodder

#32. Instead of waiting for beauty to show up at your doorstep, create so much beauty within you that it will inevitably overflow in all directions.

Nityananda Das

#33. When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Thomas Sowell

#34. Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

Lysa TerKeurst

#35. But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well ...
Send her back to where she came.
Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

Meg Cabot

#36. Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

Laura Bush

#37. Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.

Ronda Rousey

#38. Eminent monotheists in all three faiths - that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.

Karen Armstrong

#39. It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Westfeldt

#40. Open the door by yourself instead of waiting the door to be opened by itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation ...

Zadie Smith

#42. The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.

Robert Frost

#43. Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#44. When you live as a fountain of abundant love, instead of an empty well waiting to be filled by a lover, you will attract your SoulMate.

Annette Vaillancourt

#45. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#46. I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#47. Stop being an adrenaline junkie who is waiting for the happy ending instead of seeing the happy being.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#48. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

William Barclay

#49. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

A.A. Milne

#50. Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

D.H. Lawrence

#51. It's hard not
to jump out
instead of
waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Hide and Seek

Kay Ryan

#52. Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Aldous Huxley

#53. We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

Edward Humes

#54. But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

#55. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

Rolf Potts

#56. When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

Courtney Love

#57. Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.

Jonathan Stroud

#58. Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any.

Stephen Colbert

#59. Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

A.J. Darkholme

#60. Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Maggie Stiefvater

#61. We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Oscar Wilde

#62. The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#63. At school, I could see some of my contemporaries were choosing not to be active women - out there, making their own fate - but to be princesses, just waiting to be "found" and married, instead.

Caitlin Moran

#64. He'd meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He'd also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.

Richard Russo

#65. Most people waste the best years of their life waiting for an adventure to come to them instead of going out and finding one.

Jeff Goins

#66. We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

Joyce Meyer

#67. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Wally Lamb

#68. My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Cathy Guisewite

#69. She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming to take her away "from all this". All what? The solitude of living inside her own soul? The certainty of being herself instead of half of something else?

Erica Jong

#70. I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

Meg Tilly

#71. When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#72. Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Sasha Azevedo

#73. British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.

Ruth Downie

#74. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

Leo Tolstoy

#75. Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.

Peter Conrad

#76. Ben's words called to my heart. Instead of responding with terror, it opened like a fist uncurling, as though it had been waiting twenty-six years just to hear his voice.

Anise Eden

#77. You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Stephen King

#78. I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team.

Derrick Rose

#79. Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

Jane Powell

#80. Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.

Leah Wilson

#81. Even most churches don't really know what to do with their singles. They teach classes on "preparing for marriage," "waiting for marriage," and "praying for marriage," but what about just honoring exactly who you are in this moment instead of always prepping for the next phase of life?

Mandy Hale

#82. His eyes were closed, waiting. I tilted my head, slowly taking in every detail of his face.
And suddenly, something remarkable happened, like a switch turned on deep inside my chest. Instead of wanting to make out, to have a summer fling ... I wanted to fall in love.

Ophelia London

#83. Let us keep on dreaming and instead of saying "I wish" and waiting for it to happen, have the courage to say "I will" and make it come true.

Kcat Yarza

#84. It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

R.D. Blackmore

#85. Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

W. H. Auden

#86. When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

Chuck Palahniuk

#87. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?

Jodi Picoult

#88. Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

Munia Khan

#89. Instead of sitting down and waiting for miracles to come, is better to start planning your miracle.

Sunday Adelaja

#90. You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard.

Nalini Singh

#91. It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.
-Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chodron

#92. A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ...

Lois Wyse

#93. I was too unsettled. Too full. Full of dark thoughts, dark musing, as if I'd eaten them for dinner instead of the roasted duck, and they were sitting undigested in my stomach, waiting to be vomited back up at the wrong time. The threat of it hung over my mind like nausea.

Kate Avery Ellison

#94. I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.

Melissa Breen

#95. What good news regularly does, then, is to put a new event into an old story, point to a wonderful future hitherto out of reach, and so introduce a new period in which, instead of living a hopeless life, people are now waiting with excitement for what they know is on the way.

N. T. Wright

#96. Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.

A.J. Darkholme