If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
Jesse James

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'
Michael Phelps

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Mario Andretti

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
Mario Andretti

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.
Britney Spears

All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
Chuck D.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian