Top 65 Wait Patiently Quotes
#1. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.
Umberto Eco
#2. Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as if they weren't waiting for that at all.
Meg Wolitzer
#3. Although she far outranked Hamish, she had to wait patiently, because this was Lochdubh, where Hamish Macbeth was king.
M.C. Beaton
#4. I think she'll fit quite well. As wives go, Miss Pursling will be just like these books. When I wish to take her down and read her, she'll be there. When I don't, she'll wait patiently, precisely where she was left. She'll make me a comfortable wife, Ames. Besides, my mother likes her.
Courtney Milan
#5. Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.
Frederick Lenz
#6. It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. Everyone that wants to fulfil God's commission and His ministry in their lives has to know how to wait patiently, how to wait for God. Only when He then appears can success be guaranteed.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension ... without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!
Eugen Herrigel
#9. It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
Erica Jong
#10. If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.
George Muller
#11. Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.
Susan May Warren
#12. I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#13. Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
Marlene Dietrich
#14. All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. If you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
Charles Bukowski
#16. Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
Pope John Paul II
#18. You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#19. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Blavatsky
#20. If you have one wish, wish for everything
to be exactly as it is.
Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.
Stephen Russell
#21. Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
Martin Luther
#22. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Myrtle Reed
#25. Wait patiently for the right moment to act. Do not let the next opportunity slip by you. Take pride in your scars.
Paulo Coelho
#26. 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
#28. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).
Max Lucado
#30. 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
#31. Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#32. TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.
Honeya
#33. The future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.
John Michael Greer
#34. 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
#36. When we pray we should ask the Lord to reveal His will to us and then pray accordingly, act obediently and wait patiently.
Betty Malz
#37. The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.
Victor Sperandeo
#38. Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes.
Kate McGahan
#39. I can patiently wait for the things I want in life, trusting God to bring them in His timing.
Joyce Meyer
#40. There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently you wait ... are never going to be yours. They'll never let themselves be tamed. Because they prefer to run wild and free in the forest.
Meg Cabot
#41. To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.
Jalaja Bonheim
#42. Some were taking this or that nervine cure-all, but the best nervine for a man who is not absolutely past repair, is to break away entirely from his calling or greed and camp out on the sea shore ... and patiently wait for the return of good health. James Bradley
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#43. All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.
Haruki Murakami
#44. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
Shannon L. Alder
#45. Wait for it patiently - annihilation or metamorphosis.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. Beloved, God's promises can never fail to be accomplished, and those who patiently wait can never be disappointed, for a believing faith leads to realization.
Lettie B. Cowman
#47. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
Mal Peet
#48. To heal with herbs and soothe with my touch. I learned wisdom and wariness, and I learned to patiently accept and quietly wait.
Amy Harmon
#49. Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#50. She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.
Margaret Mitchell
#51. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
#52. If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller
#53. I am a Wolf.
Quietly, I will endure.
Silently, I will suffer.
Patiently, I will wait.
For I am a Warrior.
And I will Survive.
Unknown
#55. Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.
Francis Of Assisi
#56. Patiently, hopefully, actively we are waiting for Jesus. And yet here is the astonishing twist: As we wait for our Lord and the bodily resurrection yet to come for the departed, the world waits for us. As we long for God, the world is longing for God in us.
Jonathan Martin
#58. But I could see she wanted to talk, that her pat phrases were like lids dancing on top of bubbling cooking pots, and all I had to do was sit patiently and wait for her to boil over.
Zadie Smith
#59. As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to act is still a decision.
Seth Klarman
#60. Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait
not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#61. Within the eye, mysteries of the soul burn deeply beneath the fiery chasms of love and patiently wait for an awakening ...
Virginia Alison
#62. Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own.
L.M. Fields
#63. But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
Francine Rivers
#64. Within everyday a miracle comes into your life. Sometimes, you just have to keep the faith and patiently wait for that special moment that keeps you believing in yourself.
Jes Fuhrmann
#65. Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God.
Wayne Stiles