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Quotes About Timing

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
~ Jeb Bush
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
~ Thomas Hood
God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.
~ Christian Hosoi
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
~ Warren Buffett
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
~ Denzel Washington
If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.
~ Melody Beattie
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
~ Nicole Krauss
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
~ Paul Dickson
bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.
~ Jim Bishop
Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.
~ Jim Butcher
The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.
~ Jim Cymbala
Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this...!
~ Jim Cymbala
Be quick, but don't hurry.
~ Jim Highsmith
There's a time to be humble and a time to "bring the thunder".
~ Jim Knight
There are times to be humble and times to bring the thunder!
~ Jim Knight
Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the success as a personal reflection rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.
~ Jim Paul
After you know where you want to get out of the market, then you can ascertain whether and where you are comfortable getting into the market. In contrast to what most people do, your entry point should be a function of the exit point.
~ Jim Paul
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
~ Jim Rogers
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
~ Jim Samuels
When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move.
~ Jim Starlin
Unless you go before you go, you'll need to go while you're going.
~ Jim Townsend
I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
~ Joan Bauer
if she was over-sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come.
~ Joan G. Robinson
Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.
~ Joan Lindsay