Top 1200 Wrong Or Right Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You know when you're doing something right and when you're doing something wrong. As long as you feel like you're doing something right, and you're getting rewarded, then you're successful. But, if you're judging it on, Well, if I had that, I'd be successful - that doesn't work. I think doing what you love is success. Pretty cheesy. But it's true.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

I think I'm determined. And I think if you're determined, you're right. Your behavior is exactly the same when you're stubborn, except then you're wrong. And so, there's times when I'm wrong, and I'd say, "Well, you were the dark side of determined." But I think determination, you know, it's like have an idea, think about the idea, the risks involved. What does it take to get from here to there? And then once you make the choice, you just keep going.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

A lot of people advise me about the things that I need to do and shouldn't do, but I feel there is no right or wrong in the industry.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don't do the right thing.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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.

We have the utmost respect for any team we play, football is a game where there is no right or wrong way of playing.

There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.

I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.

The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

There's that term 'growing old gracefully' but why should you? There's nothing wrong with a little tweak here and there if it's right for you.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently, it may be that what you did in the past was perfectly right. It is possible to do all the right things in business and still have a business crisis because of what's happening in the external environment. And if you start focusing on mistakes only, you're going to miss opportunities.

Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

When you are yourself, there is no wrong and there is no right, because being authentic and true to who you are and owning it is all anyone could ever ask of you.

I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.