Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
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
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
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)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
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
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
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
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
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
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
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
I despise people who go to the gutter
on either the right or the left
and hurl rocks at those in the center.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- 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
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
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
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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.
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
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