Timing Quotes

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”
― Ansel Adams

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”
― Anna Wintour

“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
― Alexandra Elle

“Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.”
― Shannon Alder

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”
― David G. Allen

“You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.”
― Harriet Evans, A Hopeless Romantic

“There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in... loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

“Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.”
― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things

“Sometimes love finds you when it’s ready. And when you’re ready too. How that happens is anybody’s guess. Love is the great mystery stew, its secrets well kept, its ingredients known to providence alone. While both people are being prepared, marinated, skewered,cooked to readiness in the fires of life, the cosmic alchemist is turning the pot, reverently preparing the base for the lovers who will meld into it. Only God knows when the stew is ready to be served. Divine timing, Divine dining…”
― Jeff Brown

“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.”
― Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

“Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers

“The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try to temporize, negotiate small, inadequate changes and prolong the timetable of freedom in the hope that the narcotics of delay will dull the pain of progress. We can try, but we shall certainly fail. The shape of the world will not permit us the luxury of gradualism and procrastination. Not only is it immoral, it will not work It will not work because Negroes know they have the right to be free. It will not work because Negroes have discovered, in nonviolent direct action, an irresistible force to propel what has been for so long an immovable object. It will not work because it retards the progress not only of the Negro, but of the nation as a whole.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana