It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
—Socrates
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
—Plato
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
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
—Socrates
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
—Aristotle
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
—Charlie Chaplin
“It is quite right that you should think little of yourself: perhaps to droop your head is a part of your beauty: many flowers had not been half so lovely if they had not practised the art of hanging their heads.”
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
—Mark Twain
Whosoever thou art, to whom God hath given to be poor in spirit, to feel thyself lost, thou hast a right thereto, through the gracious promise of Him who cannot lie. It is purchased for thee by the blood of the Lamb.
—John Wesley
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain
His mercy & grace are infinite & His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their affection.
—Tozer
In spite of the difficulties we encounter when we pray, prayer is a powerful and effective way to get right, stay right & stay free from error.
—AW Tozer
Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs.
—AW Tozer
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
—Marcus Aurelius
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
—Albert Einstein
My one concern is that my soul should be right.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. A great many people are looking at their feelings, a great many people are looking down here. Don’t be looking at your feelings, but look at heaven; and if you have got the right kind of Christ, you will have the right kind of faith.
—D. L. Moody
The man who is living right with God is always praising Him. The blessings He showers upon us are more numerous than the hairs of our heads.
—D. L. Moody
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
—Thomas Aquinas
Take care of yourself, and watch out for those you have to watch out for, for one does not die more than once, and nobody returns to put right the things done wrong.
—Michelangelo
Death waits for no one and nothing. Therefore, there’s nothing more important in this world for you than what you’re doing right now.
—Leo Tolstoy
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
—Blaise Pascal
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
—Charles Dickens
“Our Christ is not dead.
He still holds the stars in his right hand.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
—Sigmund Freud