"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
Leo Tolstoy
15 FAMOUS QUOTES · WAITING
Read 15 famous waiting quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
Leo Tolstoy
"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."
Paulo Coelho
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
John Milton
"All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for."
Woodrow Wilson
"Everything comes if a man will only wait."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Waiting is one of the great arts."
Margery Allingham
"To know how to wait is the great secret of success."
Joseph de Maistre
"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies."
Rudyard Kipling
"All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don't die in the meantime."
Mark Twain
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait."
Nicholas Sparks
"Waiting is still an occupation. It's having nothing to wait for that is terrible."
Cesare Pavese
"Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come... Everyone is just waiting."
Dr. Seuss
"Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will."
Jeremy Collier
“Being your slave, what should I do but tend upon the hours and times of your desire?”William Shakespeare