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Timing Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “It’s a cruel and insulting trick – belated fortune.”

Ivan Turgenev

Fate, Irony, Fortune, Timing, Disappointment

2. “Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!”

Ivan Turgenev

Happiness, Timing, Regret, Fate, Emotion

3. “Nothing can be worse and more injurious than good-fortune that comes too late. It cannot give you pleasure in any way, and it deprives you of the right – the precious right – of complaining and cursing Providence. It’s a cruel and insulting trick – belated fortune.”

Ivan Turgenev

Fortune, Timing, Bitterness, Disappointment, Irony

4. “I made a fortune getting out too soon.”

J.P. Morgan

Investment, Success, Timing, Finance, Risk

5. “It doesn’t matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.”

Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneurship, Timing, Risk, Business, Mindset

6. “When you’re doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That’s the worst method. You’re up here, and then you see a floating candle. “Oh, no! This place is haunted!” I can’t be funny when I’m frightened.”

Mitch Hedberg

Performance, Comedy, Fear, Timing, Humor

7. “Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews’s Sermons?”

Charles Lamb

Books, Timing, Reading, Experience, Perception

8. “Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”

Steven Wright

Wisdom, Timing, Learning, Life, Reflection

9. “To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.”

Steven Wright

Performance, Comedy, Timing, Creativity, Showmanship

10. “It is ridiculous that a good book at the right time, costing less than a pizza party, can change your entire life!”

Ankur Warikoo

Books, Impact, Value, Timing, Transformation

11. “A year from now, you will never be sure of the results. But you can certainly be sure of regret, if you don’t start today.”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Action, Timing, Uncertainty, Initiative

12. “A powerful quote at the right time can change your life.”

Ankur Warikoo

Quotes, Timing, Impact, Inspiration, Change

13. “A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Start today.”

Ankur Warikoo

Action, Regret, Timing, Initiative, Progress

14. “Problem is that you want everything tomorrow.”

Ankur Warikoo

Patience, Desire, Timing, Realism, Effort

15. “Usually a good time to invest is when most people are scared of investing.”

Ankur Warikoo

Investment, Timing, Courage, Opportunity, Contrarian

16. “Do not wait for another moment to share what you felt in the moment!”

Ankur Warikoo

Expression, Timing, Honesty, Courage, Connection

17. “If you didn't say it earlier, don't say it during your exit interview.”

Ankur Warikoo

Timing, Honesty, Feedback, Restraint, Professionalism

18. “Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

Plutarch

Silence, Wisdom, Speech, Timing, Thoughtfulness

19. “I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.”

Plutarch

Health, Wisdom, Timing, Experience, Judgment

20. “When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication ‘He who knows how to speak, knows also when’.”

Plutarch

Speech, Wisdom, Silence, Timing, Awareness

21. “Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.”

Scott Adams

Timing, Success, Opportunity, History, Creativity

22. “Never make a decision when you need to pee.”

Leonard Cohen

Decision, Pee, Need, Timing, Advice

23. “Love must be plucked out the moment it springs up in the heart.”

Anton Chekhov

Love, Emotion, Timing, Relationships, Heart

24. “The chance you give the wrong guy who is run across with you at the right time, unless you don’t give a chance the right guy who is run across with you at the wrong time, only you will always be upset.”

Anton Chekhov

Love, Timing, Regret, Relationships, Choices