Do The Right Things Quotes

#1. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig

#2. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

Rachel Caine

#3. There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

Tasha Smith

#4. Life is not about things we do or do not have to do; it's about doing what we should do, about doing the right thing.

Quinn Loftis

#5. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#6. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. There's not a man on Earth who doesn't wish he was me right now. Your mind and your body will never forget the things I'm going to do to you tonight. Every ... single ... inch of your body is going to feel me."
"Oh my God."
"Yes.

Gail McHugh

#8. If there was a birthday party or a gathering and I was at training and couldn't make it, then I guess I might have missed out on a few things, but I wouldn't see them as sacrifices because I love what I do so much. I feel I've made the right choices in the way I've lived my life.

Liam Tancock

#9. The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

George Lucas

#10. You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

Brett Ratner

#11. Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

Susan Butcher

#12. We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Jamie Dimon

#13. Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005]

Green Day

#14. I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

David Levithan

#15. At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things. I try to get the right amount of sleep because I know that I need sleep to function and I need to eat properly and to do some exercising.

Melanie Chisholm

#16. Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

Harvey MacKay

#17. I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

Taya Kyle

#18. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Anna Kendrick

#19. I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

Jack Nicholson

#20. If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.

Rand Olson

#21. Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

Hugh Jackman

#22. One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.

Mandisa

#23. Hustle isn't just doing the things you love all the time. Hustle is doing the things you don't enjoy sometimes to earn the right to do the things you love.

Jon Acuff

#24. You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

Sara McMann

#25. One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

Joseph Bruchac

#26. People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

Linus Torvalds

#27. All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame.

Craig Schaefer

#28. If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

John Hoeven

#29. Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

Michael Caine

#30. You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Scott M. Gimple

#31. What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

Astra Taylor

#32. Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Herbert Hoover

#33. I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

LeSean McCoy

#34. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

Nhat Hanh

#35. My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.

Tony Dungy

#36. By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

Brittany Howard

#37. If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.

Gayle Forman

#39. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.

~Allison Robertson

Paul Miles

#41. What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

Rick Pitino

#42. Support a small chef. Not these big chains ... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

Tom Douglas

#43. Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

Sydney J. Harris

#44. I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

Meek Mill

#45. My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

Alex Spanos

#46. I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

Linus Torvalds

#47. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Haruki Murakami

#48. I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

Jamie Moyer

#49. I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Charles Kettering

#50. Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

Steve Ballmer

#51. I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

Rick Yancey

#52. You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult

#53. If we're constantly trying to do the right things and spend much of our time helping others, then we're having a conversation with God and we don't even realize it.

Ron Baratono

#54. The same way all the people I love factor in - my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.

Jack Antonoff

#55. We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

Bobby Jindal

#56. Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Mary Balogh

#57. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#58. I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Steve Madden

#59. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#60. Some things will always remain a mystery at this level of consciousness, and it is right that they should. So do not try to solve all the mysteries. Give the universe a chance. It will unfold itself in due course. Enjoy the experience of becoming.

Neale Donald Walsch

#61. But then the stage showed other things. Bad things. Murderous things. Things I would never really do. And things I would forget about in the morning, because I'd wake up feeling a whole lot better. I knew right from wrong, Ori and I both did. We were not terrible people. We were not fools.

Nova Ren Suma

#62. There's two things I really like to do and that's whoop ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I'm doing the other.

Conor McGregor

#63. The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

John Battelle

#64. You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?

Amy Andrews

#65. My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

David Morrell

#66. I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of ... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

Eric Bachmann

#67. That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Chuck Wendig

#68. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.

Orison Swett Marden

#69. Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Tiger Woods

#70. This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Lauren Oliver

#71. Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

Carew Papritz

#72. Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion
and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder ...

Diana Gabaldon

#73. In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

China Mieville

#74. Mixtape legend, underground kings ... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

Drake

#75. When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Flann O'Brien

#76. I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

Nicholas Sparks

#77. We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#78. My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.

Pattie Mallette

#79. It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.

Ira Kaplan

#80. People are basically good, and when they are in possession of the full truth, they usually do the right things.

Bryant McGill

#81. The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about

Cal Ripken, Sr.

#82. There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

Jim Brown

#83. But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Barney Frank

#84. Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Dallas Willard

#85. I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

Boris Trajkovski

#86. The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Penn Jillette

#87. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Ernest K. Gann

#88. Ah," said Florence, grimly. "A woman has to be extraordinary, she can't just do things as though she had a right. You have to get better marks than the Senior Wrangler, and still you can't have a degree.

A.S. Byatt

#89. Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Richard Madden

#90. The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so?

Megan Chance

#91. Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good.

Roselyn Sanchez

#92. Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Warren Beatty

#93. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

Geoff Ryman

#94. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

Shunryu Suzuki

#95. Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

David F. D'Alessandro

#96. I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do - even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important - and right - versus what's easy and fun.

Robin S. Sharma

#97. I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly.
"I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.

Meg Cabot

#98. Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

Jennifer McMahon

#99. In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

Bill Maher

#100. Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

Aaron Klein