Top 100 Waiting Patience Quotes
#1. Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
#2. Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
Jeremy Collier
#3. So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.
Cameron Conaway
#4. Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#7. In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow Wilson
#9. Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.
Juliet Marillier
#12. Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you're waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.
A.J. Darkholme
#15. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#16. It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait.
Ogwo David Emenike
#17. In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.
Lettie Cowman
#18. Patience has never been my strong suit.
I'm not exactly keen on waiting for anything.
Nor am I good at planning, for that matter.
I'm the shoot first, ask questions never type... you know, the kind to toss a grenade in a packed room to solve a personal problem?
J.M. Darhower
#20. But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Sarah Doudney
#21. Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.
Munia Khan
#22. Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come.
Joseph F. Smith
#23. Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Living For Love single and remixes available in UK soon! Sorry you have to wait! Its not my decision or my choice! Thanks for your patience! # rebelheart # livingforlove
Madonna Ciccone
#25. [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
Harrison Ford
#26. After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.
Grace Fiorre
#27. Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.
Auliq Ice
#29. A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#30. Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
E.L. Konigsburg
#31. I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike.
That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . .
Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.
Ufuoma Apoki
#32. If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
Nicky Gumbel
#33. Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
#34. We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.
Ellen G. White
#35. 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
#36. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.
Stanley Kubrick
#37. When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up ... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.
Carole Katchen
#38. I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.
Susan M. Watkins
#39. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
Charles Spurgeon
#40. Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.
Assegid Habtewold
#41. I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
Robert Falcon Scott
#42. Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
Max Lucado
#43. I travel North Pole to South Pole; just like patience, Long but still reachable.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#44. The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.
T.F. Hodge
#45. I've already found the right person. I'm just waiting for her to be ready.
Jessica Clare
#46. Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer
#47. If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.
Meg Rosoff
#49. Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
#51. True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.
Anthony Liccione
#52. One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
Joseph Bruchac
#53. Time is a power of its own, and it may be the only power by which some miracles come to pass.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#54. It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
Buck Brannaman
#55. You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
Rachel Kushner
#56. A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.
Paul Aurandt Jr.
#58. We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.
Ronald Reagan
#59. In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can't be your dawn, I will be your sunset!
Rossana Condoleo
#60. Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
Dalai Lama
#61. There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
A.J. Darkholme
#62. Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
Jenny Nimmo
#63. Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Billy Graham
#64. Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#65. The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.
Joseph Epstein
#66. Waiting for opportunities is patience;
creating opportunities is intelligence.
Reaping from opportunities is competence;
multiplying opportunities is brilliance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. Patience is something I can't wait to have!
Todd Stocker
#68. Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David
Marek Fuchs
#69. The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
Swami Vivekananda
#70. Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#71. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#73. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
Orson Scott Card
#74. Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.
Sharon Jaynes
#75. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#76. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Mason Cooley
#77. The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley
#79. 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
#80. Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.
Shaun Tomson
#81. Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only be outlasted. Survival is surrender to the brick wall. There
Glennon Doyle Melton
#82. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.
Nikki Rowe
#83. Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Lauren Willig
#84. Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn't sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.
J.B. McGee
#85. Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
Sharon Weil
#86. Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
J. Paul Getty
#88. Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
Laozi
#89. Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
Gary Paulsen
#91. Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.
Sharon Weil
#92. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamienska
#93. Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.
Jocelyn Murray
#94. Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
Cesare Pavese
#95. Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Laozi
#96. We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
#97. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#98. He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.
Dan Abnett
#99. Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison
Chloe Thurlow
#100. There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.
Nikki Rowe
