Top 100 What Is Right What Is Wrong Quotes
#1. What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
Dan Farmer
#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. 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
#4. Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
Marshall McLuhan
#16. 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
#17. Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. What is right is the ultimate law and trumps the law of the land.
Bohdi Sanders
#23. What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
Abdul Kalam
#24. Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
Ronald Reagan
#25. I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.
Bruce Willis
#26. Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.
Andy Stanley
#28. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
John Maynard Keynes
#29. Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.
Chuck Grassley
#30. God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
Joshua Harris
#31. You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.
Robin Sharma
#32. My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.
Tony Dungy
#33. Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#34. It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?
Sophocles
#35. You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#36. I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney
#37. Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Fulton J. Sheen
#38. When things like this happen - when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing - it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become.
Ally Condie
#39. Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.
Steve Maraboli
#40. I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it.
Matt Nix
#41. Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
Marilyn Horne
#42. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.
Salman Rushdie
#44. We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
William Hazlitt
#45. The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.
Richard Stallman
#46. There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.
Bill Clinton
#47. We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
R.C. Sproul
#48. When your life is not the primrose path, you still have to walk your road. You have to be a judge, pry right from wrong, figure out what ugly things the good can perch in, too.
Moira Crone
#49. Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won't crumble.
Helena Bonham Carter
#50. Maybe sometimes the only right choice is the wrong one, and what it really comes down to is being brave enough to make it.
Shannon Messenger
#51. Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong
Larry Winget
#52. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
#53. We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
Sharon Gannon
#54. You don't believe in right and wrong? Good and bad?"
"Sure, right is what's good for me, and bad is what I don't like, and those things are very, very wrong ."
"You really were raised by wolves, weren't you?"
"Yes, I was.
Michael J. Sullivan
#55. With life the truth is not what is right or wrong, but with life the truth is the process, where life unfolds in every individual, and takes him to the whole.
Roshan Sharma
#57. I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
Frederick Lenz
#58. Hating the wrong is right, forgiving sin where there has been no justification is wrong! Loving what should not be loved is wrong! Having mercy where judgement is called for is wrong!" ~RUIN Katara Aggelos
Lucian Bane
#59. What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Mark Twain
#60. When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.
Ray Bradbury
#61. Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.
Kenneth Eade
#62. When you have love and respect, it opens the door for selflessness and a willingness to look pass what is wrong and to focus on how to create a plan, to make things right.
Tasha Hoggatt
#63. Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
Henry A. Kissinger
#64. If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
Chuck Schumer
#65. To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.
Elaine Meryl Brown
#66. This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.
Al Sharpton
#67. Humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.
Lisa Gardner
#68. What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#69. Character is less about what we do wrong
And
All about what we make right ...
Navonne Johns
#70. It is. It's all over. The system is fucked. You can't win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There's only what you get away with and what you don't.
C.D. Reiss
#71. Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
James Thurber
#72. You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.
Richard O'Connor
#73. Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha.
C.J. Cherryh
#74. What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
Voltaire
#75. Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.
Marilyn Manson
#76. There is a wrong way to look for advice,
and there is a right way that will suffice.
Seek truth and all will be alright,
not what you want to hear,
not what you want to be right.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
Joanna Scott
#78. Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
Julian Baggini
#79. He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#80. If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Gautama Buddha
#81. It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between right and wrong). - Holy Quran 3:3
Anonymous
#82. I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Boris Trajkovski
#83. What happens when you get to the point where you don't know where right begins and wrong ends, when you no longer care who the bad guys are and who the good guys are supposed to be? When the only person you can really trust is yourself?
R.K. Ryals
#84. We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.
Julian Baggini
#85. Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.
Tanya Huff
#86. The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong;
But for when I leave this body, my writings should remain that others may share.
Gian Kumar
#87. Motivation is worthless. Motivation is what you have when everything is going right. Determination is Everything. When things go wrong and you start to waver, Determination is what keeps you moving toward your goal.
N.a.
#88. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
Ha-Joon Chang
#89. What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.
Dorothy Gilman
#90. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson
#91. Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
Colin Powell
#92. I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg
#93. What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
Ravi Zacharias
#94. Stand up for what is just against the unjust.
Suzy Kassem
#95. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Our conscience is our salvation. Our questioning of everything, of right and wrong, of action and consequence, is what defines our purpose.
R.A. Salvatore
#97. The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
Philip Roth
#98. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
Prince Charles
#99. The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.
Isaac Asimov
#100. The gospel simply means "the good news of Jesus."
Justice simply means "making what is wrong, right."
Gospel justice is the good news of Jesus that makes what is wrong, right.
Chris Marlow
