Quotes About The Right Thing At The Wrong Time

#1. The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.

Patti Callahan Henry

#2. Whenever I'm interested in something, I know the timing's off, because I'm always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I'm not interested any more.

Andy Warhol

#3. The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

T.D. Jakes

#4. Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Joshua Harris

#5. If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

Frank A. Clark

#6. The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right.

Paulo Coelho

#7. We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."

Joe Elliott

#9. People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

Phil McGraw

#10. I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.

Nick Hornby

#11. Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it ... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

Frank Partnoy

#12. It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Pearl Zhu

#13. Sometimes there doesn't seem to be any right or wrong, just circumstances. You make the best decision you can at the time and move on.

George W. Parker

#14. A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

Carew Papritz

#16. Why are weather people never right? It's probably the only profession in the world where you can be wrong most of time and still keep your job.

Jon Rance

#17. If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Chuck Schumer

#18. I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.

Jack Black

#19. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

Jennifer Lawrence

#20. But, I can't help but feel I've met the right guy at the wrong time.

Danielle Jamie

#21. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Francis Cornford

#22. Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.

Bart Hopkins

#23. The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

Joshua Harris

#24. I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right thing. And that is to tell our university, at that time, the University of Chicago, that it was wrong to own and maintain segregated housing. I remember it very well.

Bernie Sanders

#25. The right thing done at the wrong time
will not bring about the right results.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Joe E. Lewis

#27. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

#28. But nor is the willing embrace of error always beyond us. In fact, this might be the most important thing illusions can teach us: that it is possible, at least some of the time, to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction than we would have found in being right.

Kathryn Schulz

#29. There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Aristotle.

#30. Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.

Derek Thompson

#31. The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#32. Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

Jack Gardner

#33. I'm sayin' that I care about you, I do it deeply and I have for a really fuckin' long time. We're gonna explore this and I hope to God the feelin' I got is not wrong because I tried time and again to make it feel wrong but all it ever felt was right.

Kristen Ashley

#34. Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#35. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#36. Life's most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.

Terryl L. Givens

#37. You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

Jessica Sorensen

#38. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

Jesse Helms

#39. I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

Mike Huckabee

#40. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Jonathan Swift

#41. She was right. Peace was the way.
She was right. But at the wrong time.

James Blish

#42. Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.

Larry Rosenberg

#43. 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

#44. Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Price Pritchett

#45. If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

Slash

#46. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.

Maya Angelou

#47. It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Louis Sachar

#48. From right now until forever, I'm going to show you what you are to me. I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to show you, because I've wasted too much time doing all the wrong things where you're concerned.

Kathryn Perez

#49. Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN.

Mary W. Tileston

#50. The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

Deatri King-Bey

#51. Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idries Shah

#52. There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.

Natalie Massenet

#53. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

#54. The whole secret to winning big in the stock market is not to be right all the time, but to lose the least amount possible when you're wrong.

William J. O'Neil

#55. There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Charles M. Blow

#56. Don't waste too much time chasing the wrong guy or you might miss the right one.

Jana Aston

#57. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

A.A. Milne

#58. Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Mary Balogh