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Let these Congress quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
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You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
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The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Suppose our gratitude could be zero-based gratitude.
With zero-based gratitude,
we would be grateful for everything we had each day -
regardless of whether it was more or less than yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude, I can be grateful for all the people,
the love, the food, the shelter, the services,
the health, that I am blessed with today,
regardless of what I had yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude,
I can be grateful each day for the gift of life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
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.
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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
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
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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
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
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
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.
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
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