Waiting Quotes

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'

Patience is also a form of action.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

Hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and wait till the wind stops blowing.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

He who waits on God loses no time.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.