Timing Quotes
107 quotes
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"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."
"It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten."
"You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient."
"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."
"Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal."
"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."
"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."
"We can neither hurry nor hasten the works of God."
"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 critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design."
"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!"
"We need to go first because we cannot live without your love and care. If we lived longer than you, we would not and could not survive. It’s supposed to be this way. We also need to cross the Rainbow Bridge before you do so that we can be on the other side to greet you when you get there. We wait at home for you here and we wait at Home for you there. It’s just the way it is."
Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master
"Execution is something, but timing is everything."
"Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other."
"There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another."
"The vision is always for the appointed time."
"There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun."
"A woman in want must wait for the appointed time."
"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity,"
"If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God."
"If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have."
"Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them."
"Without a sense of urgency , people ... won't make needed sacrafices. Instead they cling to the status quo and resist.' - Quoting John Kotter"
Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route."
"Every flower blooms at its own pace."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that."
"Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider."
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it."
"Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others."
"Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
"Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history."
"Travel on the right paths for journey of a life time."
"Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it."
"Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to."
"Patience is something I can’t wait to have!"
"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 principlesand in the right way."
"Timing is everything, call it a plan; there is nothing in this world that can trouble you more than your own thoughts."
"Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed)."
"Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right."
"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."
"A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest."
"Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives."
"if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
"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 and Churches
"It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance."
"I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right."
"But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend."
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