Proper Time Quotes:

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

- Lin Yutang

topic: Reading, Mood, Proper Time

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Social Good, Social Service

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

- Ian Fleming

source: Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

topic: Witty, Humorous, Trying, Meteors, Wasting Your Time

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.57, Ravenio Books

topic: Doe, Suspense, Delay, Proper Time

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

- Saint Peter

topic: Encouragement, Humble, Hands, Proper Time, Care For You

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Hard Work, Easy, Easy Work, Proper Time

All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!

- James Van Praagh

topic: Worry, Enjoy Life, Energy, Overcoming Worry, End Results

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Giving Up, Harvest, Doing Good, Proper Time

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

- Ovid

topic: Wise, Time, Delay, Proper Time

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Silence, Tongue, Speak, Proper Time

It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

topic: Kindness, Men, Advice, Proper Time

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Art, Mind, Exclusion, Concentrating, Proper Time

A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

- Confucius

topic: Country, War, Years, Proper Time

Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Heart, Past, Feet, Steadfast, Proper Time

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

- Diogenes Laertius

topic: Men, Answers, Rich, Proper Time

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

- John Mica

topic: Technology, Gone, Done, Proper Time, Advanced Technology

I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.

- Nathan Eldon Tanner

topic: Jobs, Successful, Hunting, Hunting And Fishing, Plowing

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

- Edward M Hays

topic: Happiness, Children, Drinking, Pleasures Of Life, Proper Time

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

- William Cowper

topic: Missing, Lessons, Tales, Proper Time

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

topic: Growing Up, Flower, Waiting, Proper Time

Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

source: Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

topic: Running, Children, Long, Proper Time

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Perfect, Too Late, Action, Proper Time, Perfect One

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

- Ovid

topic: Men, Too Much, Haste, Proper Time

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: School, Doe, Blame, Obeying, Proper Time

The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

- James Sheridan Knowles

source: James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107

topic: Ocean, Men, Race, Proper Time

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

- Bill Johnson

source: Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: People, Tolerance, Roles, Proper Time

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

- Ty Cobb

topic: Swings, Psychology, Bats, Catchers, Elementals

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

- Robert Grudin

source: Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Giving, Mind, Attention, Proper Time

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

- Norton Juster

topic: Silence, Use, Sound, Phantom Tollbooth, Proper Time

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

- August Strindberg

topic: Children, Independent, Doe, Proper Time

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Death, Children, Fear, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.

- Vincent de Paul

topic: Inspirational, Waiting, Proper Time

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Flower, Butterfly, Moon, Proper Time, Time Of Day

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Inspirational, Children, Character, Proper Time, Building Character

Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without creating fear, praising him properly, and doing it all at the proper time are critical skills to develop if your dog is to learn from you.

- Brian Kilcommons

topic: Dog, Skills, Voice, Using Words, Correcting

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently and nothing can be done, and no move made, until "a nice cup of tea" is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time.

- Marlene Dietrich

source: "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

topic: Running, Country, Nice, Umbilical Cord, Proper Time

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

- Thomas Bernhard

source: Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.81, Faber & Faber

topic: Writing, Too Late, Lost, Writer's Block, Proper Time

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

- Herbie Hancock

topic: Simple, Musician, Might, Proper Time, Right Words

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

- Lee Konitz

topic: Simple, Years, Play, Proper Time

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

- Diogenes

topic: Time, Men, Rich, Supper, Supper Time

Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.

- Robert Farrar Capon

topic: Jesus, Nice, Winning, Proper Time

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

- Martin Luther

topic: Firsts, Principles, Three, Proper Time

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

- Sandra Boynton

source: "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

topic: Fun, Memories, Women, Yummy, Sweets And Desserts