Nick Johnson Quotes

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.

Greatness comes to those who wait.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

All good things to those who wait.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Some things are worth the wait.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.