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
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
Never do wrong when people are looking.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The Lord doesn’t want any person in His kingdom who hasn’t known bad and chosen good.
—Unknown
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
—Brigham Young (1801–77) American Mormon Leader
True happiness comes from doing what’s right not just doing what makes you feel good.
—Unknown
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice
—Unknown
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
You can be right or you can be happy.
—Gerald Jampolsky (b.1925) American Psychiatrist
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
—Latin Proverb
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
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
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
—Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–63) American Historian, Educator
If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.
—Unknown
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
—Common Proverb
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
—Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic
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 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
If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
—William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Political leader, Philosopher
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
—Unknown
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
—Frederick Douglass (1817–95) American Abolitionist, Author, Editor, Diplomat, Political leader
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author
Right is its own defense.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Two wrongs do not make a right.
—Common Proverb
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
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
—Charles Simmons (1924–2017) American Editor, Novelist