Quotes on the definition of perfect timing

We all know the importance of not wasting time, but what about perfect timing? Here are some quotes on what perfect timing really means.

1. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

2. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

3. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash

4. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden

5. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” – Eckhart Tolle

6. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.” — Israelmore Ayivor

8. “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.” — Mike Dunlap

9. “You ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people” — John Hughes, The Breakfast Club

10. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee

11. “You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

12. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

13. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

14. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin

15. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”— Dale Carnegie

16. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”— Harvey MacKay

17. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.” — Sir John Lubbock

19. “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes” ― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope

20. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ― Earl Nightingale

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