Sayings about Right & Right Doing
The boss is always right. ~ Russian Proverbs
When both parties are right, it’s a bad day for “right.” ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice. ~ Chinese Proverb
No one is hurt by doing the right thing. ~ Hawaiian Proverb
Might is not right. ~ Dutch Proverb
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
The right man comes at the right time. ~ Italian Proverbs
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ~ German Proverbs
The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right. ~ Russian Proverb
Where there is no might, right gets lost. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Who speaks alone is always right. ~ Zanzibar Proverbs
He who is always right will never get round the world. ~ Japanese Proverbs
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. ~ Irish Proverbs
The right balance depends on the weigher. ~ Georgian Proverbs
A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he’s right. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Good right needs good help. ~ Dutch Proverb
He is always right who suspects that he is always wrong. ~ Spanish Proverbs
He who is only right hasn’t really anything. ~ Turkish Proverbs
The customer’s always right. ~ American Proverbs
The right answer to a fool is silence. ~ Afghan Proverbs
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it. ~ Latin Proverbs
Two wrongs don’t make a right. ~ English Proverbs
They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove they are right. ~ Dutch Proverb
A person who talks a lot is sometimes right. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverbs
It will all come right in the wash. ~ Traditional Proverb
Even the devil knows what is right, but he will not do it. ~ Serbian Proverbs
Do everything at the right time and one day will seem like three. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Right
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right. ~ Mario Cuomo
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? ~ A Course In Miracles
I’d rather be right than President. ~ Henry Clay
A fool must now and then be right, by chance. ~ William Cowper
First direct yourself to what is right and then teach others. ~ Buddha
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.~ Peter F. Drucker
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~ William Penn
You can be right or you can be happy. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~ Confucius
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. ~ Tallulah Bankhead
Right is its own defense. ~ Bertolt Brecht
The way that I approach my entire racing career is to do it right. ~ Willy T. Ribbs
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin. ~ Frederick W. Faber
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~ Samuel Butler
Be always sure your are right, then go ahead. ~ Davy Crockett
True happiness comes from doing what’s right, not just doing what makes you feel good. ~ Author Unknown
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong. ~ Author Unknown
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice. ~ Bible
Death rights everything. ~ Maltese Proverb
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right. ~ Brigham Young
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. ~Ezra Taft Benson
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. ~ Albert Camus
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don’t get all the facts, it can’t be right. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. ~ Winston Churchill
When the superior person deals with the world, he does not prejudice his mind for or against anything — he just follows what is right. ~ Confucius
A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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