Top 100 Quotes About Doing The Right Thing
#1. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Michael Pollan
#2. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#3. If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
Mark Wahlberg
#4. Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
Cher
#5. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Lucas Grabeel
#6. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
Eriq La Salle
#8. 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
#9. Let's do, let's get some handles. I don't know why I'm talking about this stuff. Look, I love you and I miss you and you're doing the right thing. It's costing you too, I know that. I'm here and I'll be here whenever you come home, or I'll meet you anywhere, anytime. That's what.
Thomas Harris
#10. You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.
Brad Warner
#11. But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Tom Lehrer
#12. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
Russell L. Ackoff
#13. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.
Kerry Alan Denney
#14. Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
Carew Papritz
#15. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#16. There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith
#17. If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
Kathy Valentine
#18. There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
Eve Hewson
#19. (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
Thomas J. Sergiovanni
#20. You may think you're doing the right thing, and hell, you may even be right, but when you don't let anyone watch over your shoulder, how the fuck are the rest of us supposed to know?
Mira Grant
#21. Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ... its the doing of it that gives them trouble
Harry S. Truman
#22. Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.
Thomas Sowell
#23. IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
Amber Tamblyn
#24. Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.
James Frain
#25. Honor is doing the right thing, when no one is looking.
D.B. Corey
#27. Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.
David Cottrell
#28. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
George MacDonald Fraser
#29. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
Denis Waitley
#30. The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.
Simon Pegg
#31. What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.
Nicholas Sparks
#32. Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy.
David Chiles
#33. If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
Gerard Way
#34. Very few people on earth ever get to say: "I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing." If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say.
Bill McKibben
#35. Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
Adam McKay
#36. I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.
Paul Haggis
#37. I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?
George R R Martin
#38. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.
Emerson Roy West
#39. Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn't want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead.
He saved the world, but he shattered mine.
What now?
Kami Garcia
#40. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.
For a little while I'm not afraid.
Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.
Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
Ray Bradbury
#41. 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
Spike Lee
#42. The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.
Peter Gould
#43. Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.
Don Peppers
#44. If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
Pat Summitt
#45. But doing something good or remarkable isn't easy. It's much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.
Kanae Minato
#46. I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.
Stella McCartney
#47. I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it
I'm going to repeat what I said before
I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.
George W. Bush
#48. We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
Mary Pipher
#49. Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
Choa Kok Sui
#50. We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
James McGreevey
#51. Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you
Bill Belichick
#52. True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.
Sri Chinmoy
#53. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
C. Snyder
#55. It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.
James Goodnight
#56. You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.
C.J. Redwine
#57. When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
Amber Frey
#58. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In
Marian Walsh
#59. It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.
R.C. Sproul
#60. The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right - and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.
Azar Nafisi
#61. Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin
#62. You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.
Dean Smith
#63. Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.
Tim Stevens
#64. An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Matthew Barney
#65. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#66. Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.
Eric Ripert
#67. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
Gary Keller
#68. I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
Lori Greiner
#70. I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#71. When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.
Ryan Reynolds
#72. We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
Tim Wirth
#73. Am I doing the right thing? Is it ever right to hurt someone? But is it right to stay with someone when you want to be with someone else? Which one would hurt more?
Cheryl McIntyre
#74. Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
Guy Kawasaki
#75. A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. There is no shame in doing the right thing , even if its too late.
Vishala Katta
#77. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.
John Prendergast
#79. I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.
Brigham Young
#80. That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.
Emily McKay
#81. I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.
Danielle Steel
#82. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky
#83. A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
John Brodie
#84. We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.
C. Terry Warner
#85. 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
#86. Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.
Daniel Quinn
#87. Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
Jon Krakauer
#88. Not knowing the right thing to do is not an excuse for not doing anything.
Julie Buxbaum
#89. 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
#90. If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.
Trent Lott
#91. Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
J.C. Watts Jr.
#92. I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.
Hulk Hogan
#93. Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
William A. Dembski
#94. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo
#95. But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
Chad Harbach
#96. The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.
Caroline Kennedy
#97. I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
George MacDonald Fraser
#98. Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own.
Kim John Payne
#99. The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
Neil Gaiman
#100. I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
John Wooden
