Definition of Rightly

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Rightly

Straightly; directly; in front.

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.

According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.

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Rightly Quotations

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

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

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Henry David Thoreau

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Rightly Translations

rightly in German is richtig, zurecht
rightly in Latin is scilicet, vere, iuste
rightly in Spanish is debidamente

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