Top 680 Rightly Quotes & Sayings

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .

I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

And I think when you're an elected official, rightly so, you should watch what you say.

People do tend to be extremely skeptical, especially of YouTubers - and rightly so.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.