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Quotes about Right


Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.

Thomas Fuller

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Bishop Reginald Heber

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Hosea Bible

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Abraham Cowley

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!

Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.

Charles Kingsley

That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.

John Milton

Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

John Milton

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

John Donne

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Sydney Smith

Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness—and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.

Dr. Richard Gaylord Brilley

O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

H. L. Mencken

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.—Orville Wright.

Orville Wright

Cheer up, children, I am all right.

Franz Joseph Haydn

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Barbara Graham

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I have tried so hard to do right.

Steven Grover Cleveland

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Stewart Brand

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Joanna Baillie

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind.

John Dryden

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

James Anthony Froude

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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