Timing is Everything

The wise people say that "Fortune favors the bold," and "Patience is a virtue" but these axioms would seem to contradict one another.  Though good advice, they do not always ring true in every situation.  Sometimes being bold will get you into hot water, and sometimes being patient is letting opportunity slip through your fingers.  In actuality, it would seem, then, that these two adages work best when combined into the one overall adage that always holds true:  Timing is Everything.

Timing is everything.  If you're in the right place at the right time, you can get almost anything you want.  But if you're too late or too early, then you're out of luck.  And nothing can be done for you.  So being bold, going in before you're comfortable, might hurt you; and being patient, waiting for a time when you're sure, might also hurt you.  So what is to be done since timing cannot be controlled or prepared for?

In life, fortunately, when one opportunity passes you by, there is another that comes along.  That is the beauty of life.  And the wise person is the one that keeps looking for that opportunity, for the time when they will get to that right place just in time to be lucky. 

I suppose then that these two adages actually do work in concert together:   You have to be bold to seize the opportunity when it comes, before it passes you by.  But if for some reason, your timing is off or, for whatever reason, the opportunity passed you by, you need to have patience to wait for the next opportunity to come.  In that way, then, being bold and being patient are harmonious attributes that make for a more successful and satisfied life.