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.
Aristotle
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace Mann
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again.
Caroline Fredrickson
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
So of course I found that 'Goth' tag very limiting and, rightly so, I didn't go along with it. Why would I go along with having two arms and a leg cut off? Why would I allow myself to be like Boxing Helena?
Siouxsie Sioux
As God once said, and I think rightly...
Bernard Law Montgomery
When you play soft and loose with the district's money when it comes to yourself, you rightly see skepticism when it comes to not having the money for the lowest-paid workers in the district.
Thomas Dewar
Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
Chris Cannon
The events of March 11th have rightly led us to redouble our efforts.
Brian Cowen
Today, many Europeans see the EU as a remote bureaucracy built by the political elite; a process unconnected with ordinary people, ... They want greater openness in this process and, quite rightly, they want to have their say in EU policymaking.
Margot Wallstrom
Fairness has gone out of the window. The government has quite rightly agreed to give protection of their promised retirement age to every other public sector worker. But they are leaving members of the Local Government Pension Scheme out in the cold.
Dave Prentis
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
Sarah Orne Jewett
It's not about armed self-defense. It's about the power of self-organization, of making up your minds you are no longer going to depend on the federal government, you're not going to worry about whether people like you or think you are deserving, but what you are going to do to demand what is rightly yours and make life difficult for people until they make concessions.
Lance Hill
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.
John Rentoul
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never known a guy that everyone likes so much as Lorenzo. And rightly so. He just attracts people. He has a great intuition to get into people's minds and reaches the players. I've never heard any players griping about not getting enough playing time.
Marv Harshman
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
James Darren
It doesn't matter how good or how bad they are, they gonna stay there. The houses are not much to start with, but it's all they got. And they're proud of it, and rightly so. And we just do the best we can.
Charles Martin
Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony.
William Billings
ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
Ambrose Bierce
Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.
Paul Mcculley
This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama.
Lee Breuer
It puts the evangelical movement in a bad light when that happens because people make broad generalizations, rightly or wrongly, all the time.
David Dockery
The failure of the Government, the ECB and the terrestrial broadcasters to ensure that the next Ashes series is at least in part broadcast free-to-air has rightly enraged many fans and players at every level of the game. For the long- term future of the game, the next deal must ensure that some live Test cricket is broadcast free-to-air.
John Whittingdale
Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end of their 2 to 4 percent guidance.
Jeffrey Klinefelter
I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national treasure - quite rightly - and didn't want to cause her any distress.
Daniel Barenboim
In our view this outcome is positive for Serra was seen by the markets as a micro manager. Someone who is an efficient administrator but who is also -- rightly or wrongly -- perceived as very interventionist.
Nuno Camara
The clear message that Republicans haven't gotten is that people actually expected us to take action on education reform and finance. Voters are frustrated, and rightly so.
Royal Masset
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
The momentous events of 1939-1945 will always be taught in schools, and rightly so, but children need to understand that German history did not end with the death of a dictator.
Ken Boston
We are rightly concerned about the impact that this particular development will have on our TOT receipts, especially at a time when our budget is so tight.
Fred Sainz
Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly described as `the longest suicide note in history'.
Denis Healey
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
What Duke will find out is when your name gets dispersed, rightly or wrongly, it has the potential to affect everybody with a degree from that school. That's what we've kind of been digging out from here.
David Plati
We always felt that the defendant received a fair trial, and that she was rightly and fairly convicted of killing her infants. The right person was convicted of doing an awful crime.
Steve Lungen
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
Vannevar Bush
An interpreter at that level cannot - not 'should not' - simply cannot, make a mistake. He cannot. No way. Well, if he did he'd be out, and rightly so.
Viktor Sukhodrev
The White Sox (early 60s) are rightly called the 'Hitless Wonders' -- their idea of offense is a walk, an error and a hurricane.
Joe Garagiola
Ang Lee has succeeded in presenting this highly controversial situation in an intelligent and sensitive fashion and secured outstanding performances from the entire cast. It is a feat which has been rightly recognized.
George William Russell
We were rightly booed off at halftime. But we did the same at their place as they did to us tonight, and we lost 1-0. It's funny how football works.
Chris Coleman
Perceptually, that means something when the history books are written on this company. But what the Street and investors are increasingly focused on, rightly so, is what kind of profitability can you get from those revenues?
Matthew Troy
Yes. Well, I know who they are alleged to be ... And I have asked questions just this week as to why these people whose names are, rightly or wrongly, in common currency, why they aren't being questioned and why they aren't being charged.
Gerry Adams
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
Benjamin E. Mays
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Ambrose Bierce
We're still very sure that we rightly won this election.
Jennifer Jacobs
The majority of fans, quite rightly, are only interested in the team being successful and challenging for honors.
David Gill
We can't let Kelley get to the outside. We have to contain him. He will probably get 20?30 touches, and rightly so.
Jeff Wrede
Very few people in the history of the game, either players or administrators, can be said to have changed the game but Kerry Packer can rightly be considered someone who did just that.
Ehsan Mani
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton
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