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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Waiting

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.
Henry Van Dyke

Love, Time, Fear

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

May, Left, Hustle

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Time, Important, Decision

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happiness, Happy, Yourself

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Long, Here

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Tough, Until

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

Attitude, Others, Healthy

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee

Star, Biggest, Chinese

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Mind, Energy

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby

Baseball, Spring, Tell

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Single, Before, Moment

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Secret, Curiosity, Lying

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau

Alone, Today, Another

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Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Albert Camus

Place, Last, Takes

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

Life, Love, Hope

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair

Job, Until, Expensive

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

Good, Live, End

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

Hot, Strike, Striking

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Lies, Victorious

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Choice, Leave, Quiet

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William S. Burroughs

Mind, Learn, Questions

When you create art, the world has to wait.
Will Smith

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Men, Strong

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Erma Bombeck

Car, Place, Kids

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire

News, Case, Sacrament

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