20 Wait Quotes to Discourage You from Waiting

1. We are not born to wait. We are born to do. -DEAN KOONTZ, 

2. If you wait, you grow old, nothing more. -WALTER BARGEN 

3. All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait. -EVAN ESAR, 

4. Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. -ANN BRASHARES 

5. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. -William Arthur Ward 

6. 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 

7. 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 

8. 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 

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

10. 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

11. If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip. -Robert Kiyosaki 

12. To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. -Alan Cohen 

13. You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. -Diana Ross 

14. Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan. -Phil McGraw 

15. If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. -Maurice Chevalier 

16. 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 

17. Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act. -Sylvia Earle 

18. Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait. -Robert De Niro 

19. The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live. -Morrie Schwartz 

20. Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. - Napoleon Hill