Top 100 Longer You Wait Quotes
#1. The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
Loesje
#2. 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
#3. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
Robin Williams
#4. The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.
Jay Asher
#5. The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs
#6. He would often say, 'The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,
Ashlee Vance
#7. The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.
Ashay Abbhi
#8. 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
#9. Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
Amber Naslund
#10. Boys, the longer you wait to get my requested prehistoric attack dogs, the more chance we have of people we care about getting hurt, more hurt, or killed. Oh, and don't hurt the alligators
they're a protected species.
Gini Koch
#11. The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
John C. Maxwell
#12. 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
#13. The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.
Derek Jeter
#14. Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
Behdad Sami
#15. Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.
Susan Messing
#17. You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson
#18. The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,'" Spikes said.
Ashlee Vance
#19. The obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.
Judith Martin
#20. The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.
Bill Davidow
#21. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.
Greg Nickels
#23. You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.
Robert Jordan
#24. World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
Kailash Satyarthi
#25. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...
Louisa May Alcott
#26. We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.
John McCain
#27. I was not going to wait any longer for my life to start. I was going to start my life on my own.
Beatriz Williams
#28. When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.
Paul Gilding
#29. I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.
Julia Quinn
#30. If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.
Justin Morneau
#31. I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no reason for us to waste our time. I'd rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
Joquesse Eugenia
#33. What happens to impatient girls who try to tell their man what to do in bed?" She stifled a sob of pleasure. "They have to wait longer.
Tessa Bailey
#34. The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it.
Chris Crutcher
#35. There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming
David Berg
#36. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E.W. Howe
#37. Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
Italo Calvino
#38. The more time you wait before telling somebody the truth about a secret you've been keeping, the longer your path out of the woods gets.
Andrew Smith
#39. I'm living my life waiting for the man who comes for me like one did for Anna, with hungry eyes behind the wheel and rope in the trunk. I'm ready. But I don't know how much longer I can wait.
Mindy McGinnis
#40. Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work for, and wait for it.
Andy Crouch
#42. From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'
Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry ways to the shore.
-Rumi
Coleman Barks
#43. I will no longer sit and wait patiently for my happiness to grow like some budding fruit on the limbs of a tree, but will mold it and shape it with my own hands.
Robin LaFevers
#44. Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.
Abraham Foxman
#45. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
Garrison Keillor
#46. Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.
Thorton Wilder
#47. Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would eventually become inevitable, but those would have to wait until she no longer needed the cloak of who she was.
Elizabeth Bear
#48. Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.
Lou Barletta
#49. No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
Albert Camus
#50. There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets
the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Diane Ackerman
#51. American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
Raoul Dufy
#52. She kissed him with all the built-up frustration inside her and drew it out, gently biting his lower lip. He groaned, and she moved her lips to his ear. The longer you make me wait, the harder I'm gonna make you work for it.
Cindi Madsen
#53. I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me
Kahlil Gibran
#54. Sometimes God makes you wait, Pattie. And then wait some more. And sometimes even right at the last minute, He makes you wait just a little bit longer until He comes through. It's how you learn to trust in Him.
Pattie Mallette
#55. Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#56. Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore.
Rumi
#57. If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
Jim Carrey
#58. We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.
Pope Francis
#59. Revenge is calmer, cold, and calculating. It has a plan. It's willing to wait. Sometimes it only has to simmer for a couple of days, sometimes weeks or months. The longer revenge cooks, the more potent it becomes. Unleashed at a toxic level, it can take the carrier with it.
Adrienne Wilder
#60. In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones
Esther Perel
#62. My sweet heart,
you have aroused my passion,
your touch has filled me with desire,
I am no longer separate from you,
these are precious moments,
I beseech you,
don't let me wait,
Rumi
#63. His lips graze my neck as he leans in. Oooh, now I know you are trying to get fucked. But you have to know by now, I like to make you suffer for it. So you're going to wait a little longer before I give you my cock, Mia.
Nina G. Jones
#64. Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.
John Fante
#65. Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.
Rumi
#66. Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.
Denis Waitley
#67. The Bloodsucker Queen has lived for what, a millennium? She can wait on her decaying ass a little while longer.
Heather Heffner
#68. Are you ready for me to read?" I took her outstretched cup and placed it on the bedside table.
"I was ready ten minutes ago. If you wait any longer I'll have time to write a novel meself.
Jenny B. Jones
#69. Paula Abdul's really impatient to start a family. She says if she has to wait much longer she's going to go crazy-er.
Chelsea Handler
#70. She is in love, she craves sugar, eats a dried apricot, another. All at once she is really tired. She will not wait any longer for Romain and goes to bed. She is not guilty because, she keeps telling herself, thrilled, she had no say in it. She falls asleep immediately.
Herve Le Tellier
#71. When are we going to stop being afraid to push for change and begin putting into action the things we have discussed for centuries? Mental health cannot wait any longer. Lets get to work!
Tamara Hill
#72. How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?
Richie Norton
#73. I may not survive," Roderick said, resting his hand on the small of her back,"if I wait any longer to kiss you.
Margaret Mallory
#74. A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.
Karen MacNeil
#75. When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#76. Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.
Steve Maraboli
#77. You were born for such a time as this to rise up and shine, for that reason take a step right now towards your dreams. Don't let your dreams to wait any longer.
Euginia Herlihy
#78. I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.
530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#79. At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them
Paulo Coelho
#80. When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die. I'm too tired to be frightened. Above me is blackness, and all around me is blackness, and the forest sounds are a symphony to sing me out of this world. I am already at my funeral.
Lauren Oliver
#81. I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.
Jean Racine
#82. I can wait two years, she thought, turning the rose in her hand. I can wait two years for him, longer if need be. If he would ever love me, I'd wait my entire life.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#83. Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you
Bob Dylan
#84. She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? "We've no cowards among us," the man said. "Good." Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?
Brent Weeks
#85. The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#86. It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer.
M.E. Kerr
#87. the longer the wait, the greater the weight. At
Stephen King
#88. War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Charles Mackay
#89. The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight.
Stephen King
#90. Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
John F. Kerry
#91. What are we even doing out here?" Burnett asked, seemingly getting more frustrated the longer he considered things. "The orders were to wait until tomorrow. Why do I give orders around here if no one listens to them?
C.C. Hunter
#92. You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.
Eve Evangelista
#93. Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
#94. My grandmother has hundreds of axioms. One of them was 'If you think you want something, wait a month.' One of three things will happen if you follow this sage advice. One: You will forget. Two: You will no longer need it. Or three: You will need it more. Most often numbers one and two will happen.
Matthew Sleeth
#95. How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.
Steve Maraboli
#96. The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?
Colette
#97. There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
Laura Miller
#98. Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.
Kyrsten Sinema
#99. We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
Paulo Coelho
#100. I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.
Melina Marchetta
