Right Quotes

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Thomas Jefferson

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

If Heaven made him earth can find some use for him.

Chinese Proverb

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Winifred Holtby

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Socrates

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Luigi Pirandello

Sir I would rather be right than be President.

He will hew to the line of right let the chips fly where they may.

Roscoe Conkling

Be sure you are right then go ahead.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

English Proverb

Let us 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

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

Wendell Phillips

One truth is clear Whatever is is right.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

George Washington

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Anonymous

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Do what you love the money will follow.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

Saint Vincent Pallotti

Bloom where you are planted.

Anonymous

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.

Charlotte P. Gilman

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

When I was young I said to God "God tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said "God tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said "Well George that's more nearly your size." And he told me.

George Washington Carver

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Sir Archibald Wavell

Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.

Horace

In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The driver knows how much the ox can carry and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

Rosalynn Carter

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.

When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be he must be.

We do not write as we want but as we can.

W Somerset Maugham

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not a dreamlike state but the somehow insulated state that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical it is not only spiritual it is something of both on a different plane and a more remote one.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?

Ray Kroc

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously the man who can sing tenor.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann von Goethe

The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities and for no more.

Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Tennessee Williams

To every man according to his ability.

Bible

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?

The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III

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