Quotes
Quotes about Right
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
