Rightly Quotes
405 quotes by 322 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
— Aristotle
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I…
— Charles Babbage
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of…
— Alain Badiou
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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
— Alvin Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor Adorno
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
— Danny Boyle
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a…
— James Allen
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Winston Churchill
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved…
— William Ames
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All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of…
— William J. Clinton
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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And…
— George F. Kennan
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Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
— Walter Johnson
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which…
— Annie Besant
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Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the…
— Oswald Chambers
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