Quotes About Willingness To Wait

#1. Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Stanley

#2. The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Stephen L. Carter

#3. It's a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don't know of any first-rate artist who hasn't manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

Mark Van Doren

#4. Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Rumi

#5. Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Erica Jong

#6. I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.

Sue Grafton

#7. The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

Joshua Harris

#8. A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

Edward Abbey

#9. Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting.
In opening unprotected to the experience
that is enslaving you with its torment,
there is the willingness to be free.
Are you willing? Or do yo just want to
wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?

Gangaji

#10. As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

Marlee Matlin

#11. As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Life can unfold unlimitedly as long as we have a heart of appreciation and an undefeated mind.

Daisaku Ikeda

#13. Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.

Virginia Woolf

#15. 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