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The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
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
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If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
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"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
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
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 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.
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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
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
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
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.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
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
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
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
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
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
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
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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