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What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
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
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
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.
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If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
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Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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.
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
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
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
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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'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
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
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
The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho
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.
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Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
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
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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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.
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
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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
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
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
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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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