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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Related topics: Wisdom

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood,
only they are not rightly disposed.
- Henry David Thoreau

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

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

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

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

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and 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.

We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie