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To have a right to do a thing
by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Related topics: Values

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

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.

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 time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

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

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

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

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

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

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

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

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- 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

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates

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

Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu

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

Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

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.

I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie