The Best Thing Is To Do The Right Thing; The Next Quotes

The best thing is to do the right thing;
the next best is to do the wrong thing;
the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still.
- Alfred Henry Lewis

Someone who doesn't care about what's distant
will soon encounter worries at hand. - Confucius

Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that
such a one as this (Mahatma Gandhi)
ever in flesh and blood
walked upon this earth. - Einstein

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since
there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut

The only reason for time is so that
everything doesn't happen at once. - Albert Einstein

The law of the river,
like the law of being,
is infinite progression.
You never boat in the same river twice.
- Tryon Edwards

In order to rise from its own ashes,
a Phoenix first must burn.
- Octavia E. Butler