Quotes About Rectify

#1. The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

Sun Tzu

#2. When something
needs to be done in the world
to rectify the wrongs,
if one is really concerned
with benefiting others,
one needs to be
engaged, involved.
This is action out of compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. But there is an influence in the light of the morning that tends to rectify whatever errors of fancy, or even of judgment, we may have incurred during the sun's decline, or among the shadows of the night, or in the less wholesome glow of moonshine.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. We've resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven't been
intimate enough for you to call me by my first name?" Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. "Perhaps I should rectify that.

Melissa Lurquette

#5. She didn't think she'd ever shown enough gratitude for the quick wits of the people she worked with, and if the evening ever ended, which it showed no signs of doing, she would rectify that. She would buy them all flowers or whisky and write a card thanking them for being so clever.

Nick Hornby

#6. We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

Orville Dewey

#7. but I can't tell her that it doesn't matter that she's poor, because it does matter to me, but I can rectify the problem. Everything else about her is perfect.

Gisele Walko

#8. Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes.

Michelle Franklin

#9. Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

Henry Eyring

#10. Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

Pamela Yates

#11. Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

Fareed Zakaria

#12. I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Brian Bosworth

#13. As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

John Gokongwei

#14. Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

Stephen Richards

#15. Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?

Julius Schwartz

#16. You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

Arthur Goldberg

#17. He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

J.R. Ward

#18. The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.

Greg Behrendt

#19. Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

Keith Duckworth

#20. We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

Simon Pegg

#21. Even the best of us have bad days. We fall, we climb. That's life. I can promise you, your worst day is never your worst. Your worst day's the day you realize you gave us too soon and you can no longer rectify your mistake.

J.C. Reed

#22. If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

John Milton

#23. What is necessary is to rectify names.

Confucius

#24. The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Jalal Talabani

#25. For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

Joyce Brothers

#26. The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

Mark Dacascos

#27. Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?

Ramakrishna

#28. He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#29. It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

George Washington

#30. The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

Maria Edgeworth

#31. Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#32. I would be deliciously pleased if you could rectify this issue.

Charlotte Stein

#33. Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. Joan

Erich Maria Remarque

#34. Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

#35. Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Mary McCarthy

#36. A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings ... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

William Wordsworth

#37. 'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Ray McKinnon

#38. I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Jessica Ennis

#39. If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

Rio Ferdinand

#40. A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

Marlo Thomas

#41. Some people can't live with themselves if somebody has to die for freedom. They can't rectify that. They would give up freedom to avoid the killings if they had to

Gary Hansen

#42. Praise, Praise, Praise a child for the good they commit and the wrongs they rectify.

Asa Don Brown

#43. The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Matt Lucas

#44. To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

George Washington

#45. It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others.

Debasish Mridha

#46. But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

Xavier Becerra

#47. To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

George Washington

#48. Sins of the past that I can't rectify alone. Sins I committed as an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I need help and fast. I need someone off the books. Someone angry.

Nathan Edmondson

#49. Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

#50. Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

Thomas Browne

#51. When the wound given is deep. The action to rectify needs to be from the heart, because the word 'sorry' is not enough to sew a cut so deep.

Trishna Damodar

#52. For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

Lucy Davis

#53. Gore is nature's way of saying, There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

Douglas Coupland

#54. It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

William Wilberforce

#55. The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

Joaquin Phoenix

#56. The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

Zhuangzi

#57. I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley Maclaine

#58. Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

Khalil Gibran

#59. It should all feel splendid. You tell me if it doesn't, and I shall rectify the situation.

Sarah MacLean

#60. Mr. Rawlings is a man of his word. The problem was, he made two different promises and he felt honored to keep them both. He hoped that by fulfilling one, in a different than expected way, he may have the chance to rectify the other.

Aleatha Romig

#61. You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

James Cook

#62. He should rectify in creation everything that can be rectified. And after he has done so, children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort man can only propose to diminish arithmetically the sufferings of the world.

Albert Camus

#63. When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.

Yasmin Mogahed

#64. Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#65. Regrets grow tiresome

Melvin