Top 100 Right Moment Quotes
#1. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Mason Cooley
#2. For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
Michael Bay
#3. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Gary Smalley
#4. People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.
Jack McDevitt
#5. You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
Jury Nel
#6. My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
Rene Burri
#7. It wasn't perfect: so what? Life isn't perfect: life is what happens while you're waiting for your moment in the sun and if you miss it, waiting instead for the perfect illusion that Hollywood sells, then more fool you. I'd spent half my life waiting for the right moment: I was done with waiting.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#8. Fritz, the doggen butler, presented him with a barf bag at exactly the right moment. A barf bag. A hospital-grade, bright-green barf bag. As
J.R. Ward
#9. Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
Cat Deeley
#11. The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Bruce Lee
#12. To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
Arthur Schnitzler
#13. That's the problem. I wasn't happy. I was hiding. I knew it. My therapist knew it. I wasn't going to ever be happy until I went back to doing what I was good at. And since I can't go back into law enforcement, why not go into the private sector. Gideon's call came at the right moment.
Mercy Celeste
#14. [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.
Georgette Heyer
#15. Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
Andrew Soltis
#16. Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Jean De La Bruyere
#17. People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra
#18. Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.
Andrea Della Valle
#19. The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
Guo Guangchang
#20. Sometimes it seems his whole life revolves around watching and waiting. Waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right memory to capture. Hoping for that perfect minute where everything finally comes together.
Travis Thrasher
#21. I believe God allows special people to enter our lives at the right moment in time to help us on our journey. Some of those special people are in our lives just a moment and others remain forever. No matter how long we are together, the timing is always arranged by divine care.
Melissa G. Moore
#22. I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin
#23. To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#24. It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment.
Jonathan Galassi
#25. There's a time in everyone's life when I'm sure they wonder if fate is actually some dude watching from beyond, just waiting for the right moment to fuck with us.
Tiffany King
#26. One solution to this is to bundle our decisions with "tripwires," signals that would snap us awake at exactly the right moment, compelling us to reconsider a decision or to make a new one. Think of the way that the low-fuel warning in your car lights up, grabbing your attention.
Chip Heath
#27. You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
Cassandra Clare
#28. Everything will come to you at the right moment. Be patient.
Lovely Goyal
#29. Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment
George Meredith
#30. Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.
Kaiden Blake
#31. [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)
Pierre Mac Orlan
#32. The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.
Glen McDiarmid
#33. to go on waiting for the right moment in the hope that it would never come
Norbert Gstrein
#34. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else.
Andre Kertesz
#35. But life wasn't a film. Problems didn't disappear and "The End" wasn't emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to the inevitable and found the right moment to verbalise it. He
Lucy Parker
#36. People who wait for the right moment end up waiting forever.
Chloe Bridges
#37. Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it ... it's just easier if you do.
Byron Katie
#38. A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.
Simone Weil
#39. Intelligence is using what you KNOW, in the right way, in the right place, at the right moment and with the right intention.
Mike George
#40. You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.
Callimachus
#41. To be on the Right Moment on the Best Place on Earth is a Dream from every Dreamer.
Jan Jansen
#42. Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Francois Fenelon
#43. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.
Monita Rajpal
#44. If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.
Russell James
#45. There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#46. To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.
Aristotle.
#47. Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'
'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'
'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape.
J.K. Rowling
#48. The R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
Ray Kurzweil
#49. Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.
Penelope Tree
#50. There is a time and place for everything, you just have to wait for the right moment. Once it comes it will be the most beautiful and perfect thing possible!
Gloria Tesch
#51. What I've always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I'm at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes.
Victor Milan
#52. Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda
#53. The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
Earl Warren
#54. A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
Henri Poincare
#55. Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
Bob Cousy
#56. A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
#57. One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
Hart Crane
#58. I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm
#59. I can't say I based [Carla] on anybody I knew. She was so foulmouthed and mean, just said what was on her mind. So I guess Carla is somebody I always wished I could be at the right moment, the one who always has the perfect comeback.
Shelley Long
#60. There is always a right moment to stop something.
Paulo Coelho
#61. When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass.
Jay Asher
#62. A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education)
Ted Hughes
#63. Sometimes the right person tells the right story at the right moment, and through a combination of luck and design, a creative expression gains new force.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#64. All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.
Miriam Toews
#65. In seasons of great pain, despair, and disappointment, He comes. Just when you're at the end of yourself, He comes. He appears at just the right moment - never early, but always at the right time. And it is at this moment that you realize it's not the end. It's the beginning!
Ross Parsley
#66. Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
#67. And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.
Paulo Coelho
#68. what a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you
Nikita Gill
#69. Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything.
Aryn Kyle
#70. Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.
Pete Seeger
#71. Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
Jean Monnet
#72. 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.'
Amanda Steiger
#73. Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person
Rita Zahara
#74. There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.
Siri Hustvedt
#75. I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.
Greg Rucka
#76. Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
Sophie Divry
#77. I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
Nick Cave
#78. If we had spoken before, you would not have been ripe. If we were to talk later, you would have rotted." He bites into the pear, savoring the taste. "Perfect. The right moment.
Paulo Coelho
#79. If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.
Neil L. Andersen
#80. Sometimes the soul goes through a nuclear winter, and hope has to go dormant. It's there, though. Waiting for the right moment to sprout.
Angel Martinez
#81. But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing, and what can I do with nothingness? I must admit that your letter this morning (by the afternoon it had changed) arrived at just the right moment; I was in need of those very words.
Franz Kafka
#82. Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
Vivian Vande Velde
#83. Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.
Robert V. Levine
#84. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.
Cesar Aira
#85. We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle.
#86. I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.
Lisa Mangum
#87. We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.
Carl Jung
#88. With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#90. You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Paulo Coelho
#91. You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.
Logan Henderson
#92. Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
Henry Mitchell
#94. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#95. It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.
Glenn Curtiss
#96. God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.
Christian Hosoi
#97. Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.
Robert Zuppke
#98. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#99. We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.
Ann Schlee
#100. The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.
Eugen Herrigel
