Top 100 Do Right Quotes
#1. It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
Mark Twain
#2. In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.
Mark Skousen
#3. My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.
Joyce Meyer
#4. It's easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.
Ann Aguirre
#5. It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Mark Bowden
#6. One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
Jodi Picoult
#8. If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
William S. Burroughs
#10. If you don't draw a line in the sand, you will just keep drifting. You have to know what you're willing to do and not willing to do right now.
Glenn Beck
#11. Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
Manoj Bhargava
#12. I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Cato The Elder
#13. Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
Langston Hughes
#14. You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
Phil Ochs
#15. How smug I was, telling Theo how hard we tried to do right by the other selves we visit. I'm so full of it. I took more than this Marguerite's only night with the man she loved; I took away her choices.
Claudia Gray
#16. We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
#18. You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.
Johnny Hunt
#19. A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Phil McGraw
#20. I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.
Darynda Jones
#21. I'm a doer.
I do.
So. When I say I'm going to do something, I do it. When I say I'm going to do something, I really do it. I throw myself into it and I do. I do my ass off. I do right up to the finish line. No matter what.
No.
Matter.
What.
Shonda Rhimes
#22. We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.
Thomas Lickona
#23. Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you're it.
Carolyn Hax
#24. I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
#25. I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.
Waylon Jennings
#26. Love isn't safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It's part of the human experience. No one is perfect...People make mistakes. The secret is to focus on what they do right and decide what quirks you can live with.
Kristin Billerbeck
#27. Life is once so do right neglect wrongs.
Wiz Khalifa
#29. He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.
George MacDonald
#30. Yeah," Colt said, "she is good about praying. I am so proud of the way she has grown into a fine Christian woman who puts the Lord first. Of course I'm not saying she's perfect, but I don't think I could love her any more than I do right now.
Robyn L. Ackland
#31. What ever I do,That becomes right. I always do right in someway and other way. and I know My every step is right for my life.
Newpostcard
#32. So, one day I gave in. You know, I'm always ashamed that I gave in, because I didn't believe in it, and I didn't do right-- was only satisfying what somebody else wanted, and that's not really me.
LaDonna Harris
#33. Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. This has been a long day. Rest is most likely the best thing we could do right now, even if it does get us nasty case of motel cooties and our skin rots off. ~Cleo
Sally Slayer
#36. I exercise every morning, no matter what. Sometimes it's tough to do right when you get off the plane, but after ten minutes you start sweating, and you always feel better.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#37. What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.
Joe Vitale
#38. After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
Brian Tracy
#39. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions,
Henry David Thoreau
#40. I can't look at everything I've already done wrong, only the things I can choose to do right from here on out.
J.R. Johansson
#42. I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
Mark Twain
#43. I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
Chaz Bono
#44. You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers' crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever.
William Apess
#45. When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.
Robert Pinsky
#46. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#47. I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now ... besides, no one treats me as well as I do.
Adele
#48. Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.
Gracia Martore
#49. Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?
Julius Schwartz
#50. Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.
Robin Hobb
#51. I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose ... this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal.
Kim Coates
#52. Easy. Easy is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. "That should be easy for you to do, right?" But notice how rarely people describe their own tasks as easy. For you, it's "Let me look into it" - but for others, it's "Get it done.
Jason Fried
#53. I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.
Alison Pill
#54. Don't act like you're not still attracted to me. Don't act like you don't watch me every class. Don't act like you don't have the same things going through your mind that I do right now.
Kandi Steiner
#55. So you had to piss me off badly enough activate some primal instinct?" I clenched my jaw, grinding my teeth. "I think all you managed to 'draw out' was fuming rage. I could rip your head off right now."
"Save that for later," he waved his hand dismissively. "You have work to do right now.
M.A. George
#56. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man. I sang it nice and slow
Willie Nelson
#57. I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Paul Wellstone
#59. Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.
Francis Landey Patton
#60. If you do right, everything will come out right.
Wolfman Jack
#61. It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
C.S. Lewis
#62. Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
Neale Donald Walsch
#63. A brief overview of the major theories and pedagogies of the field will show that it has struggled to come to terms with how to do right in a wrong world.
Elaine Richardson
#64. I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.
Kami Garcia
#65. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
Harry S. Truman
#66. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
Bernie Siegel
#67. I have never wanted to punch a highway in the face as badly as I do right now.
Seanan McGuire
#68. There's a narrow bit which is still possible, which is left from all of the ones you can't do right now, and then you make the best out of that. You wouldn't have done that by yourself at any other moment of time.
Nils Frahm
#69. If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.
Thomas Dooley
#70. It's more important to do right than to be right.
Laura Scott
#71. Even when I try to be good, I am bad. Even when I try to do right by you, I only hurt you. [ ... ] Even when I try to create, I destroy.
Nina G. Jones
#72. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?
-Sookie Stackhouse
Charlaine Harris
#73. [O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
Frances Moore Lappe
#74. Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.
Stephanie Zacharek
#75. An 'exchange' would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options - just like federal employees and Congress do right now - and allow their employer to help pay for it.
Andrew P. Harris
#76. As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
Marian Wright Edelman
#77. there's a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is "compassionate conviction." With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on the common good. She is a champion for the cause of peace and justice. She has the will and the drive to do right.
Simone Campbell
#78. If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
Maya Angelou
#79. That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.
Octavia E. Butler
#80. MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
Oscar Wilde
#81. Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen
Will Ferrell
#82. It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
Grover Cleveland
#83. We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Mark Twain
#84. I can't imagine loving her any more than I do right now, but I know I will. Because every second I'm with her, I fall harder.
J. Daniels
#85. There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.
(Against Fortunatus)
Augustine Of Hippo
#86. A man has to do what a man has to do, right?
Ika Natassa
#87. Is there such a thing as natural modesty?
Wisest is she who knows she does not know ...
True insight comes from within.
He who knows what is right will do right.
Jostein Gaarder
#88. I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#90. Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.
John C. Lettsome
#91. Jack turned red,"I kinda let a princess die."
His grandfather groaned. "You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right?" the old man asked.
"So I'm told.
James Riley
#92. No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Sarah Vowell
#93. We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
Judith Viorst
#95. My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.
Derrick Rose
#96. Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. Everyone feels that way, that we will never stop loving someone, that we will never love anyone else, that we can never feel more than we do right now, but yet... we do, somehow, stop loving. We do get over it. Don't we? We have to. We must. Otherwise, how could we go on?
Paullina Simons
#98. - If you like me that much, you'll do anything I tell you to do, right? You won't get angry, right?
- No of course not.
- And you'll take care of me always and always.
- Of course I will. Don't worry, everything is going to be fine.
- But I'm scared.
Haruki Murakami
#99. Well, if you're a real alcoholic, then where are you stashing it? That's what real alcoholics do, right? Hide bottles?
Christa Allan
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