To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside.
—Buddhist Teaching
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
—George Washington Carver (1864–1943) American Scientist, Botanist, Educator, Inventor
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
—David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) American Zoologist, Educator, Peace Activist
I saw a bank that said “24-Hour Banking”, but I don’t have that much time.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
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
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist
I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don’t practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don’t study, don’t think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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
If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
Don’t fear, just live right.
—Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) American Mormon Religious Leader
An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I’m not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real, the little voice in our head usually responds with “This isn’t true, this is BS…On the other hand, a declaration is not saying something is true, it’s saying we have an intention of doing or being something. This is a position the little voice can buy, because we’re not stating it’s true right now, but again, it’s an intention for us ion the future.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, 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
To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.
—Lawrence G. Lovasik
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
—Laura Schlessinger (b.1947) American Radio Talk-Show Host, Author
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
—Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
The Lord doesn’t want any person in His kingdom who hasn’t known bad and chosen good.
—Unknown
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief.
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer
Every society honors its live conformists
and its dead troublemakers.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
—George Bancroft (1800–91) American Historian, Politician
To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.
—Meister Eckhart (c.1260–1327) German Christian Mystic
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