Quotes
Quotes about Right
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
Everything starts with yourselfâwith you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.
We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
