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Quotes About Timing

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
~ James Howell
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
Make hay while the sun shines.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
And if not now, when?
~ Talmud
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
~ Leo Durocher
June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.
~ Siberian saying
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
~ American Proverb
A word spoken in good season, how good it is!
~ Proverbs
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!
~ Alice Caldwell Rice
Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
~ Charles Reade
Age 35. — I just read that men reach their sexual peak at 18. Women reach their sexual peak at 35. Do you get the feeling that God is into practical jokes? We're reaching our sexual peak right around the same time they're discovering they have a favorite chair.
~ Rita Rudner
Tako obicno biva. Oni koje zelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u casovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najvise ocekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih.
~ Ivo Andri?
I've learned we all get exactly what we need, when we need it, in order to learn what God intends for us to know so we can be who God intends for us to be.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
aggressive, or fine but the timing was just not right.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I'm late," she snapped before Summerset could speak. "But here's the thing, I'm not always late, but you're always ugly. Who's got the real problem?
~ J.D. Robb
When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.
~ J.D. Robb
Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they thought, and their eyes seemed to blur, because they remembered asking those questions themselves, long ago.
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
~ J.R. Ward
Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn't even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.
~ J.R. Ward
And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.
~ J.R. Ward