Quotes About Wrong To Right

#1. When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

F. Matthias Alexander

#2. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#3. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#4. I guess at the end of the day it's better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn't it?
She was absolutely right about that.

Jay Crownover

#5. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Mongers have been able to convince otherwise intelligent people that wrong is right, discrimination is appropriate, and division is unifying. It is among the most frightening and dangerous of their abilities." And

April White

#7. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#8. And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.

Emily M. Danforth

#9. Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

James Mansfield

#10. The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

Dallin H. Oaks

#11. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall

#13. We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Robert Kennedy

#14. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

Richard Wagner

#16. There is a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray!

Paul Silway

#17. I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.

Kate McGahan

#18. When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and they're wrong about being unstoppable.' 'Otherwise, you'll wind up like a bug on a windshield.

Seanan McGuire

#19. Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.

Paulo Coelho

#20. My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Gaspar Noe

#21. Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Carl Schurz

#22. We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#23. If you make the wrong decision, it's never too late to make the right one

Michael Oher

#24. I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

Elisha Cuthbert

#25. If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

Edwin Lefevre

#27. But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.

Laurel Snyder

#28. Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

Tana French

#29. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash

Meg Cabot

#30. The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

William Randolph

#31. Good girls earn good things." She let my jaw go, her eyes going beyond me toward Benny's house, then coming back to me. "Let yourself have good things." "It's not right," I told her quietly. "Know one thing on God's beautiful earth, and that is" - she leaned into me - "love is never wrong.

Kristen Ashley

#32. As Edward Glaeser put it, 'Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.

Matt Ridley

#33. Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Rich Burlew

#34. I'm sayin' that I care about you, I do it deeply and I have for a really fuckin' long time. We're gonna explore this and I hope to God the feelin' I got is not wrong because I tried time and again to make it feel wrong but all it ever felt was right.

Kristen Ashley

#35. I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Etgar Keret

#36. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

Russell L. Ackoff

#37. So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.

Karen Joy Fowler

#38. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Howard Hughes

#39. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Edward Snowden

#40. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Peter Drucker

#41. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

Barack Obama

#42. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

Shel Silverstein

#43. Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

Laura Harring

#44. But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

Jess C. Scott

#45. I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#46. Pope smiled. "You're thinking all wrong, boy. There's no such thing as law or government inside this room. It's just you and me. I am the one and only authority in your little world, whose borders are these walls. I could kill you right now if I wanted to.

Blake Crouch

#47. I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball,

Dinara Safina

#48. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

#49. Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

Warren Christopher

#50. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. Thus, relativism removes one of our most powerful motives to study the views of the other-the idea that the other might be right and we might be wrong.

David Detmer

#52. I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#53. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#54. You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

Frederick Lenz

#55. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.

David Brier

#56. Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

Marshall McLuhan

#57. When it is easier to do wrong, it is harder to do right, but best to not do nothing at all.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#58. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#59. We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Bill Scott

#60. Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Paulo Coelho

#61. Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

Bernard Baruch

#62. I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.

Kaya Scodelario

#63. You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

Sanford Meisner

#64. An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

John Tuley

#65. Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code
a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people
or, rather, there aren't any right people.

B.F. Skinner

#66. The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.

Mira Grant

#67. I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Edward Weston

#68. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

Jesse Helms

#69. What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?

Marie Forleo

#70. It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Hideo Kojima

#71. Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong ...

James Whistler

#72. The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

#73. It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

Tim McGraw

#74. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Duff Goldman

#75. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi

#76. I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

Brian Andreas

#77. Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Ilsa J. Bick

#78. I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.

Linda Kage

#79. Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

Jimmy Savile

#80. Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

Joel Osteen

#81. I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me."
"Well, stop," she said. "I told you, figure out what's right with you.

Rainbow Rowell

#82. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

#83. And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and heart in a way that all the theories of right and wrong didn't matter anymore. All of a sudden opening my arms to the storm seemed a better choice, than dancing under the rainbows.

Akshay Vasu

#84. I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Vi Hart

#85. Walk to the right direction, because someone might be following you! You have the right to go to the wrong direction if no one is behind you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Heraclitus

#87. A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Vernon Howard

#88. Because we were born of old country people in a new land, and, right or wrong, we had not felt equal to those around us, and had had to do a little more than they in everything we did.

Robert Laxalt

#89. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Jonathan Swift

#90. To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!

Diamante Lavendar

#91. I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

Karla M. Nashar

#92. I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible.

Michelle Gomez

#93. I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

Mark Webber

#94. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

Daniel Radcliffe

#95. Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.

Ellen DeGeneres

#96. I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Samuel Johnson

#97. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Julian Baggini

#99. If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Frank Herbert

#100. As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

James Lecesne