A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
Darrell Royal

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
Jason Newsted

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Andrew Wyeth

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Harvey Cushing

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
Bruce Catton

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope