Quotes about right-and-rightness

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

— Sir William Blackstone

Right is its own defense.

— Bertolt Brecht

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.

— Ramsey Clark

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

— Confucius

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

— Calvin Coolidge

Be always sure your are right, then go ahead.

— Davy Crockett

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

— Frederick Douglass

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

— Peter F. Drucker

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

— Meister Eckhart

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

— Frederick W. Faber

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

— Thomas H. Huxley

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

You can be right or you can be happy.

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

— David Starr Jordan

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

— John F. Kennedy

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

— Malcolm X

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

— Golda Meir

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

— John Milton

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

— William Penn

The way that I approach my entire racing career is to do it right.

— Willy T. Ribbs

Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

— Carl Schurz

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

— George Bernard Shaw

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

— Charles Simmons

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

— Publilius Syrus

It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.

— Tiorio

True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.

— Source Unknown

The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice

— Source Unknown

The Lord doesn't want any person in His kingdom who hasn't known bad and chosen good.

— Source Unknown

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

— Source Unknown

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

— Simone Weil

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

— Harry Weinberger

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

— Brigham Young

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!

— Eric Parslow

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

— Mark Twain