Top 100 Quotes About Do The Right Thing
#1. Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.
Nancy Farmer
#2. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Milton Friedman
#3. Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren Bennis
#4. as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat.
M. Robinson
#5. One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.
James Carlos Blake
#6. Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
#7. The Jesus of the Bible lives by a simple philosophy: If love guides our hearts, rules become redundant. Love, embraced as a guiding orientation of other-centeredness, will always lead us to do the right thing.
Bruxy Cavey
#9. I have two choices in life: I either try to do the right thing and get accused of being selfish, or I just do what is right for me and get called selfish anyway. This time, it's all about me.
Dawn O'Porter
#10. You can't always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.
Mariana Zapata
#11. One thing my father always tells me is; always do the right thing, stop the people that don't".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#12. A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
Monte Irvin
#14. When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
Stormie O'martian
#15. One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.
David Deida
#16. 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
#17. The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.
Maria Ressa
#18. We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
Amy Chua
#19. Do the right thing cause after the tears come the cheers.
DMX
#20. Hypocrisy is a quality found in others. I am an optimist. I believe that saying the right thing will eventually cause people to do the right thing for me.
Bauvard
#23. When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.
Luis Fortuno
#24. You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.
Charles F. Haanel
#25. I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
Howard Schultz
#26. ARPA's mandate - to support smart people in a variety of areas - was carried out based on the unwavering presumption that researchers would try to do the right thing and, in ARPA's view, overmanaging them was counterproductive.
Ed Catmull
#27. In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
- do the right thing, for the right reason
- no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.
Josh Rushing
#28. With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
Buck Brannaman
#29. Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.
Nancy Moser
#30. There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
Edward Snowden
#31. Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
Robert Breault
#32. There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.
Croft M. Pentz
#33. 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
#34. Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
Daniel J. Mitchell
#36. Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.
D.G. Kaye
#37. The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.
Wallace D. Wattles
#38. Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
Ed Royce
#39. To do the right thing you must sometimes defend people who don't understand you, or who fear you, or who are angry at you. There are times when you have to operate purely on faith and continue to trust human decency even when it is no longer visible.
G. Willow Wilson
#40. America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
Winston Churchill
#41. I tried to do the right thing. Why couldn't you just let me leave? (Kellan)
S.C. Stephens
#43. 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
#44. I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
Winston Groom
#45. The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).
Gil Blake
#46. I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.
Chris Wyse
#47. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris
D.G. Novak
#49. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.
Anthony Liccione
#50. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond
#51. Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.
Scottie Thompson
#52. No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.
Jude Watson
#53. The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between you and your perfect, platonic future.
Seanan McGuire
#54. I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.
Flavor Flav
#55. People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
Michael Josephson
#56. We always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing.
Jeff Goins
#57. I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.
Pat Benatar
#58. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
Donita K. Paul
#59. I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.
Robert Downey Jr.
#61. If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.
Radhanath Swami
#62. You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
#63. The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.
Rick Scott
#64. As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
Idris Elba
#65. Morality has nothing to do with religion," she says. "You can do the right thing and not believe in God at all.
Jodi Picoult
#66. If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
Chin-Ning Chu
#67. I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Jeff Kinney
#68. 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
#69. Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.
Gary Haugen
#70. I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#71. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony Blair
#72. Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.
Larry Winget
#73. If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have to think about what is right because doing the right thing becomes who you are, like a reflex. Your actions with time become your character
J.L. Witterick
#74. 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
#75. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
Candace Bushnell
#76. So I couldn't just pack my blue IKEA sack and go - I had to do the right thing. I had to preserve what was left of the goodness in my soul. But for the record, this was exactly why I never wanted to have friends. So much for being an island. Thanks
Camille Perri
#77. Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.
David Cottrell
#78. If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.
Brendan Halpin
#79. I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely." I added.
"You talking about mom?" Ben said
"I was talking about me."
"You could have been talking about all of us.
Ben pressed his hand against the glass and my brother and I matched palms.
Gillian Flynn
#80. Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.
Robert Armstrong
#81. Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
Ridley Scott
#82. That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
Edward Snowden
#84. Franz's father gave him a lesson. "Always do the right thing, even if no one sees it.
Adam Makos
#85. When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.
Joel Osteen
#86. we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope
Jennifer McMahon
#87. 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
#88. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.
Kelly Bartlett
#89. Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.
Perry Moore
#90. In fact, her whole life, she'd done her absolute best to do the right thing. It was wonderful to be wildly, romantically in love at sixteen. But life wasn't romantic
Jennifer Greene
#91. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
Joe Louis
#92. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
Nicholas Sparks
#93. Your family are the people who pester you until you do the right thing.
Jeanne Gehret
#94. 'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.
Spike Lee
#95. The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism
his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Jon Krakauer
#96. For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
Sela Ward
#97. Albeit, you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you're trying something people couldn't do ever before, you're having the whole world of righteousness in yourself.
M.H. Rakib
#98. Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.
Jack Dorsey
#99. Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
James Stockdale
#100. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
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