It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
—James Freeman Clarke (1810–88) American Clergyman, Author
The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
You can be right or you can be happy.
—Gerald Jampolsky (b.1925) American Psychiatrist
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
—Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian Mystic, Philosopher, Poet
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
—Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963) British Novelist, Short Story Writer, Psychoanalyst
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
—Frederick William Faber (1814–63) British Hymn Writer, Theologian
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
—Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847) Irish Nationalist Leader
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us 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 (1809–65) American Head of State
There is no right without a parallel duty, no liberty without the supremacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self-denial.
—Francis Lieber (1800–1872) German-American Political Jurist
The time is always right to do what’s right.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
—Unknown
One of the grandest things in having rights is that though they are your rights you may give them up.
—George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or a bad.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
Never will God suffer the reward to be lost, of those who do right.
—Arabic Proverb
Right is right only when entire.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t”. These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
True happiness comes from doing what’s right not just doing what makes you feel good.
—Unknown
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
—Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
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