A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryant

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
Edgar Watson Howe

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
Theodore White

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Terry Prachett

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.
Michael Reagan

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Marc Newson

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
Judy Holliday

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
Jim Cramer

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
Ellen Glasgow

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
Shelley Fabares

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
Natalie Imbruglia

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
John Sununu

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.
Susan Sullivan