Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- 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
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
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
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance
or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
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.
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
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
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
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
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