Quotes about Timing

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

The worst thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

Sometimes we yearn for God to crack open a receptive door to share our faith. We scramble to grab an opportunity that never seems to come. Other times God swings open a door so quickly we're too stunned to walk through it!

The Lord will always give us words to say, and show us when to say them if we ask Him. Timing is everything.

To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way. In the quietness of all that doesn't feel right, this truth does.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.