Quotes About Timing

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

Know thine opportunity.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.