Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Waiting Quotes

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Waiting Quotes

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Death Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Learn to labour and to wait.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Soul Quotes

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Waiting Quotes

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Waiting Quotes

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Trying Quotes

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , People Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Men Quotes , Waiting Quotes

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Patience Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Hate Quotes , Waiting Quotes

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Heroism Quotes

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Waiting Quotes

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Wish Quotes

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Waiting Quotes

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Artist Quotes , Waiting Quotes

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Waiting Quotes