Proper Time Quotes

• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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

  Ian Fleming

  Motivational, Witty, Time

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

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• 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

  Doe, Suspense, Delay

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

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• 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

  Encouragement, Humble, Hands

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

  Bernard Meltzer

  Hard Work, Easy Work, Easy

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• 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

  Worry, Enjoy Life, Energy

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• 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

  Giving Up, Harvest, Doing Good

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

  Ovid

  Wise, Time, Delay

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• 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

  Silence, Tongue, Speak

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• 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

  Kindness, Men, Advice

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

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• 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

  Art, Mind, Done

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• 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

  Country, Business, War

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• 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

  Heart, Past, Feet

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• 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

  Men, Answers, Rich

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• 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

  Technology, Gone, Done

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• 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

  Jobs, Successful, Hunting

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• 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

  Happiness, Children, Drinking

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

  William Cowper

  Missing, Lessons, Tales

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.119

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• 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

  Growing Up, Flower, Waiting

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

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• 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

  Running, Children, Long

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

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• 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

  Perfect One, Too Late, Action

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.149, SpiralPress

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

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• 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

  School, Doe, Blame

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• 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

  Ocean, Men, Race

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

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• 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

  People, Tolerance, Roles

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

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