Always Being Right Quotes

• Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
  It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
  natural wisdom.

  Stephen Levine

  Block, Addiction, Kind

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.76, Anchor

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• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
  fearing to be wrong.

  Peter McIntyre

  Motivational, Positive, Confidence

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Role Models, Feelings

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

  Amy Tan

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Party, Years

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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