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What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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