Top 100 Quotes About Being Right
#1. But nor is the willing embrace of error always beyond us. In fact, this might be the most important thing illusions can teach us: that it is possible, at least some of the time, to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction than we would have found in being right.
Kathryn Schulz
#2. The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
#3. Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.
Alexander Berkman
#4. Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.
Jeffrey Pierce
#5. When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.
Nora Roberts
#6. Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success
Donald Clark
#7. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.
William E. Gladstone
#8. It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.
Thomas Crum
#9. Jovinderpihainu breaks it. You are right to ask, Shari. But there is a difference between being honest and being right. Honest men lie all the time, believing that they tell the truth. Much evil is borne on the back of honest
James Frey
#10. I feel great because you are even better than I first fucking thought. And I love being right.
Ella Frank
#11. She was the youngest of four girls who could not agree on anything but retained an identical conviction of always being right, and feeling each had nothing to learn from the others but lots to teach
Elif Shafak
#13. Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.
Ira Glass
#14. On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#16. We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
Warren Buffett
#17. I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.
William Landay
#18. Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.
Lewis Carroll
#20. I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful.
Richard Lange
#21. When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.
Wayne Dyer
#22. Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Steven Johnson
#23. Long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT,
Thomas Paine
#24. Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.
John Flanagan
#26. Righteousness doesn't mean being right. It means showing love, compassion and understanding no matter what you think is right.
L.J. Vanier
#27. We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it's your turn to stand up and stand out.
Seth Godin
#28. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.
Philip Roth
#29. HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
Tom Stoppard
#30. It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.
Thomas Szasz
#31. But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
Mary Jo Putney
#32. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.
Kent Beck
#33. The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
Russell Hornsby
#34. Being always right is knowing what you KNOW, knowing what you DON'T know, knowing what you NEED to know and then defining the relationship between all three of them. That's what always being right is.
Todd Travis
#35. If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch
#36. Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how
Peter Heller
#37. Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.
Demetri Martin
#38. Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.
Naomi Wolf
#39. Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.
Melody Beattie
#40. If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.
Wendy Wunder
#41. I hate being right all the time. So,
Susan Ee
#42. For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Markus Zusak
#43. Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.
John Fante
#44. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.
Rachel Spangler
#46. One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.
Ben Lee
#47. It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#48. You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
Hunter S. Thompson
#50. Better you forgive than being right. Put your pride in your pocket and bring out Love for CHRIST sake.
James C. Uwandu
#54. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
#55. There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now. My happiness is knowing this, my joy is expressing it, my bliss is experiencing it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#56. I have this terrible habit of always being right. I try to fight it, but for some reason it's a habit I just can't shake.
Darren Schalk
#57. But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.
Steven D. Levitt
#59. When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole - a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.
Chuck Barris
#61. Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Debbie Ford
#62. There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.
Chuck Klosterman
#63. Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski
#64. The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#65. Emet smiled at her. "Do you ever get tired of being right?"
"Never. It's a constant thrill.
Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
#66. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.
DeiAmor Verus
#67. We rolled back the clock in a full company meeting and shared each of the steps that came together to help us arrive at this decision that was going to impact everyone on the team. We wanted to show people what "risk being right" looked like to us. How
Jonathan Raymond
#70. It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
Paul Begala
#71. Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
Warren Farrell
#72. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
fearing to be wrong.
Peter McIntyre
#73. I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
Anne Lamott
#75. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.
Hermann Hesse
#77. I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.
Eugenie Scott
#78. If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.
Stephen Richards
#79. I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.
Liza Conrad
#80. There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being right.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#81. Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.
Val McDermid
#82. For the record, I take no satisfaction in being right. For the record, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I'm not wrong ...
Steve Alten
#83. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
Harrison Ford
#84. being right isn't the key to a successful negotiation - having the right mindset is. HOW
Chris Voss
#85. This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view.
Douglas Adams
#86. No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.
Thomas Paine
#87. Success in business isn't about being right; it's about being committed.
Mike Michalowicz
#88. Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.
Michael Skolnik
#89. As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
Richard Linklater
#90. people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right," said
J.K. Rowling
#91. things - Feeling Safe, Being Right, Feeling Good, and Looking Good. If any of these conditions are challenged, we become fearful.
Peter Coughter
#92. I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'
Linn Ullmann
#93. Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.
Richard Carlson
#94. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
Richard Russo
#95. I've missed you, Liss. It hurts not seeing you for all those years, but this? You being right here and me not being able to have you? Hurts so much more.
Leisa Rayven
#96. Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J.K. Rowling
#97. Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes
#98. Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
Edward De Bono
#99. Leadership does not depend on being right.
Ivan Illich
#100. Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
Kathryn Schulz
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