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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.
- William Safire

Related topics: Values

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

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 PHOTO

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.

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If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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


 

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

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

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

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

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.

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

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

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

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

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

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

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 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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

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

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon

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

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

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

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

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

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

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

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


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