To have a right to do a thing by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing
by Gilbert K. Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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To have a right to do a thing
by Gilbert K. Chesterton