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Right Proverbs



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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