Rightly Quotes

405 Rightly quotes by 316 unique authors

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts… — Confucius
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful… — Neal A. Maxwell
How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived… — Isaac Newton
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ… — Stephen King
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When… — Unknown Author
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In… — Bell Hooks
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us… — Michel de Montaigne
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character,… — James Buckham Kennedy
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of… — Bertrand Russell
All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in… — Barry Long
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more… — Rajneesh
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor… — Pope Paul VI
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. — Winston Churchill
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. — George Washington
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and… — St. Jerome
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot… — George Washington
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world… — George Washington

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