Quotes About Knowing What's Right

#1. Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Knowing what's right isn't as important as doing what's right.

Frank Sonnenberg

#4. Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Paul Anka

#5. To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

Tibor Kalman

#6. Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector

#8. All these girls jog. You know what that means, right? It was nice knowing you, Blake Hunter.

Jay McLean

#9. Sometimes it's not about your opinion; it's about what's right ... and knowing the difference.

Nina Guilbeau

#10. Success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

John Burroughs

#11. You know home isn't really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

Jay Crownover

#12. The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now

Haruki Murakami

#13. I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Pat Metheny

#14. ... I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Edmund Morris

#15. 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

#16. You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Iain Banks

#18. Knowing that what's in your head might not be right - but not having any idea how to fix it.

Rachel Van Dyken

#19. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#20. There are two kinds of courage. There's the kind you get from knowing that what you're doing is right. And there's the kind you get from knowing its hopeless and wrong, and just not giving a damn.

Gareth L. Powell

#21. you know what is and what is not right. All men do, though they may spend their years trying to bury that knowing, burying it beneath words, hatreds, lusts, sorrow, or any of the other bricks from which they build their lives.

Mark Lawrence

#22. I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Leslie Caron

#23. I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

A-Trak

#24. I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Celia Imrie

#25. We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.

Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right

Jonathan Bailey

#26. If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards.
And who wants to know how their own story ends?

Marcus Sedgwick

#27. Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

David Duval

#28. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.

Daphne Oz

#30. Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future, but that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing those technologies right away. Ergo we do not know what we will know.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#31. A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

James A. Owen

#32. I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

Alice Miller

#33. You're right. I don't know your real name. But I don't know mine either and it's never stopped me from knowing who I am or taking what I want.

Aleatha Romig

#34. I tell you, mister, if there's anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it's knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they're the same ones what get your own back up.

J.D. Jordan

#35. In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The

Carlo Rovelli

#36. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. This "knowing what to do" ... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand ... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

Roger Scruton

#38. Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Alison Gopnik

#39. Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.

Norah O'Donnell

#40. A Way Out
Do you know what it is like to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes.
Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.

Lang Leav

#41. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.

Haruki Murakami

#42. True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#43. It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.

Steven Brust

#44. I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

Laurie R. King

#45. Knowing the difference between right and wrong sometimes did not serve to clarify much of anything. Just because a man is able to draw his line in the sand, it doesn't mean he'll know what to do when his only course of action requires crossing it.

Graham Moore

#46. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones?

Bill Bryson

#47. I don't like this, he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg?I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want.

Rachel Caine

#48. Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#49. For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

Debbie Harry

#50. Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

Carl Safina

#51. I try to leave it in Christ's hands and trust that He knows the situation. He knows the position I'm in. He wouldn't have put me in this position if I couldn't handle it. That's what keeps me going, knowing that He's right there. I can call on Him whenever.

John Salmons

#52. Humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Lisa Gardner

#53. When you have a good connection with the field of consciousness, you can use your intuition freely and enjoy a continuous feeling of knowing what is best and right to do in a given situation.

Jorgen Bonde Eriksen

#54. not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.

J.D. Jordan

#55. Fearless what that means to me, knowing your enough, when you know in your heart and your mind that you're enough you're fearless. It's not just a magazine, it's a lifestyle, right? So embrace that - I am fearless!

Annie Ilonzeh

#56. Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Larry Winget

#57. On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.

Tommy Lee

#58. Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle.

#59. Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

Christine Caine

#60. I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

#61. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

#62. Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden

Susan Mallery

#63. To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does ... When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right ... Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#64. Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Brandy Norwood

#65. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#66. Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.

Judith Hill

#67. Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

Frederick Lenz

#68. The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

Hugh Prather

#69. What you know
and don't deny that
you don't know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don't know.
Right?

Jennifer Hillman

#70. You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

Jennifer Aniston

#71. On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior:
knowing what is right and doing it.

Michael Josephson

#72. It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

Elizabeth Moon

#73. I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?
[ ... ]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment.

Yukio Mishima

#74. I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

Eric Idle

#75. But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Celeste Ng

#76. I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#77. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

Abraham Hicks

#78. He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.

Matthew Reilly

#79. Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one's ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.

Teo Yi Han

#80. A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

Matthew Lesko

#81. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart,

Max Allan Collins