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The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Related topics: Values
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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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.
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
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
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
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
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
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
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.
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
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 what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- 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
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
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- 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
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
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