The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right. ... by William Safire

The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right. ...
by William Safire

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

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- 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.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

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

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

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

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

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.

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

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

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

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

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 like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

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

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

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.

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

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

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates

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

You always have everything you need, right here, right now.
Do you know how I know? You're still here.
If you hadn't always been given everything you ever needed,
you wouldn't be here.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton

Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

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

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The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right. ...by William Safire

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The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right. ...
by William Safire