Top 100 Just Do The Right Thing Quotes
#1. She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They're not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They aren't seeking the limelight. All they try to do is just do the right thing.
Barack Obama
#2. But the thing about my granddad is ... it's kind of hard to convince him people won't just do the right thing. You hate to say anything that sounds hostile or untrusting or small-hearted around him. You feel like he'd be disappointed in you.
Joe Hill
#3. You should just do the right thing.
Dean Smith
#4. If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?
Anna Kendrick
#7. I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
Jessica Hahn
#8. When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.
Price Pritchett
#9. I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
Tracey Gold
#10. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.
Dave Grohl
#11. Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
Linda Thompson
#12. Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.
Jonathan Sadowski
#13. A good man would help the two people in the limo because it was the right thing to do; a good man would turn himself in; a good man would beg for his job back; a good man would just let this case go and move on. William wasn't a good man, not anymore. He was on a mission.
Destiny Booze
#14. I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.
Carol Vorderman
#15. 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
#16. In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.
Rachel Caine
#17. People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
Willie Geist
#18. I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.
Lenny Kravitz
#19. The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.
Ryan Howard
#20. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
Ty Segall
#21. I know the Smiths, I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot take this one thing from me.
Leila Sales
#22. You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.
Dean Smith
#23. If he has a weakness, it's that he's a moral being. Where possible, he'll do the right thing, the just thing, and if he does wrong he'll bear the guilt of it.
John Connolly
#24. Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, "I kind of prefer that." I could go back to writing that and probably make more people happy, but it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do. I don't want to take the lazy route.
Herbert
#25. The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
Criss Jami
#26. Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."
Joe Elliott
#27. I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
Jack Coleman
#28. I guess the best thing you can do is just be there. You don't have to think her's right. But you do have to be there.
Jojo Moyes
#29. Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.
Jennifer Niven
#30. We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.
David Eddings
#31. Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.
Georgia Jagger
#32. I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.
Anna Paquin
#33. The one thing I always think about when I don't get jobs is that it just wasn't yours. You don't want to do something that you're not right for because it won't make the production look good, and it won't make you look good.
Timothy Simons
#34. Am I the right guy? I don't know, but I'm the guy being asked, and the last thing I want to do is miss an opportunity or make God mad, so I just keep saying yes.
Bob Goff
#35. After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.
Fetty Wap
#36. I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.
Angelina Jolie
#37. Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
Emily Giffin
#38. You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
Kurt Loder
#39. It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
Briar Kit Esme
#40. Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the "right" thing to do.
Steven D. Levitt
#41. Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself ... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!
Tony Blair
#42. I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
Mehmet Oz
#43. A hero is just somebody who tries to do the right thing even when it's hard.
There are more of us than you think.
G. Willow Wilson
#44. Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."
Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?"
"That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this."
"You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said.
Charles De Lint
#45. I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.
Anderson Silva
#46. I'm just trying to do the right thing. I'm a vampire."
"Duh."
"And you're not."
"Again: duh."
"I could hurt you. I could lose control."
"If you were anyone else, I'd have kneecapped you by now.
Alyxandra Harvey
#47. So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.
Julia Cameron
#48. I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#49. You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.
Kristen Stewart
#50. I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
Tom Petty
#51. Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
Bo Bennett
#52. You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.
Christopher Walken
#53. You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
John Knowles
#54. He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don't think anybody's ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he'd not know the right thing to do about it. It'd be just like him to hide away mementos and never say a word. I despair for him, I do.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#55. The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
Babe Ruth
#56. I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.
Evan Rachel Wood
#57. They said my dreams were too insignificant to matter, and they might just be right. The thing however is, I owe it to myself to find out if they are. The only way I can do that is to keep dreaming and living my dream. If in the end they are right, at least I can tell myself I did my best.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#58. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
Archie Manning
#59. Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.
L.J.Smith
#60. I just wish," he said, not looking at her but at the floor, "that I could say the right thing, do the right thing, to make this easier for you. Whatever you want from me, I want to do it. I want to be there for you in whatever the right way is for you, Clary.
Cassandra Clare
#61. One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
Alan Rickman
#62. America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,
Lloyd Blankfein
#63. We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
Krishna Das
#64. in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)
Simon Kuper
#65. For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.
Ian MacKaye
#66. If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."
Brian Regan
#67. You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.
Emily Giffin
#68. Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.
Becky G
#69. Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.
Hany Abu-Assad
#70. So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.
Mike Ditka
#71. No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.
Jude Watson
#72. Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.
Scottie Thompson
#73. The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.
Raul Labrador
#74. We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.
E.F. Schumacher
#75. The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
Lady Gaga
#76. Just do the next right thing.
Then repeat indefinitely.
JohnA Passaro
#77. I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
Jasper Carrott
#78. When it's not meant to make you up, it's meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say "no".
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.
Jessica Lange
#80. I've always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that's never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I've been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.
Buck Brannaman
#81. These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.
Bill Luther
#82. In every failure is the seed of success ...
Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.
Deepak Chopra
#83. as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat.
M. Robinson
#84. Why do those hard choices in life - you know, the ones you make because they're the right damn thing to do - always feel like you've just been kicked in the balls?
Dark Desires at Midnight - Arran
Jessica Lee
#85. I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
Elon Musk
#86. I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
Larry The Cable Guy
#87. I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be - "
"Smart," he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. " I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the problem is, Parker ... I just want you.
Penny Reid
#88. People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.
Eric Burdon
#89. Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.
John Boehner
#90. Callie, if you never think of the present then you can never do a thing about the future. The future's just made up on dozens of right-nows strung together.
Rachel Heffington
#91. I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.
Jodi Picoult
#92. I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.
Peter Capaldi
#93. It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
Brendan Iribe
#94. We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.
Mark Andrew Poe
#95. You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal
#96. Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That's how you know you are doing the right thing.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right.
It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).
Ayn Rand
#98. The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon
#99. I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.
Allie Brosh
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