There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis
There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right; Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
—John Milton
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights
—Georg Hegel
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
—Carl Jung
To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
—Henry Ford
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
—Thomas Jefferson
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
—Seneca
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
“One has a work given him of God to do, and if he does it rightly he cannot do it carelessly.”
Deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering:
“There is something not right”
No matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.
—Carl Jung
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
—Aristotle
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
—Julius Caesar
The reason why so many of our prayers go unanswered is that we are not right ourselves.
—D. L. Moody
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
—Marcus Aurelius
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
—Plato
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
—Plato
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
—Plato
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
—Plato
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly!
—Plato