Rightly Quotes

405 quotes by 322 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. — Theodor Adorno
If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. — Danny Boyle
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. — Thomas Carlyle
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
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
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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