Top 100 Quotes About Doing The Right Thing
#1. I'm alone, going in the opposite direction. We're on different tracks in more ways than one. All of a sudden the air feels thin and something heavy is bearing down on my chest. Am I really doing the right thing? The thought makes me feel helpless, isolated.
Haruki Murakami
#2. I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
Henry Allingham
#3. If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#4. South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
#5. Brave doesn't mean 'fearless,' you know. It means doing the right thing even if you're frightened.
Shane Gericke
#6. Integrity is simply doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do...not the easiest path, but the right one.
Robert S. Carlisle
#7. Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.
David Cameron
#8. 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
#9. I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.
Brendon Ayanbadejo
#10. Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
Jim Stovall
#11. If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Vandana Shiva
#13. I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
Harmony Korine
#14. Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
Mike Phillips
#15. Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#16. Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.
Ronald Rolheiser
#17. It's one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don't need validation.
Carlos Wallace
#18. For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
Alexandra Paul
#19. There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
Henry Rollins
#20. Doing the right thing often resulted in living the wrong thing forever.
-Christian, Marquess of Eastrerbrook
Madeline Hunter
#21. Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.
Shannon Hale
#22. President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
Eliot Spitzer
#23. I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
Alex Gibney
#24. Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.
Cassandra Clare
#25. 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
#26. Just because they think they're doing the right thing doesn't make them right.
Tera Lynn Childs
#27. Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?
Rosamund Hodge
#28. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#29. I follow my orders without question, as a good soldier would. You ask the same from your soldiers.'
'No, I ask them to be good people. That way if they follow my orders, I will know I am doing the right thing.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#30. There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing.
Christie Golden
#31. I became a villain for doing the right thing,
Tony Hayward
#32. You control what path you take. Keep doing the right thing and handling the things within your control, and God will take care of the things that are out of your control. Everything will work out as it should.
Deatri King-Bey
#33. Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.
Michael Josephson
#34. So how many infants have to grow up under the shadow of the mushroom cloud, and just possibly die screaming inside the radioactive rubble, just for us to be sure we're doing the right thing? How certain do we have to be? How long must we wait? How long must we make them wait? Who elected us God?
Iain M. Banks
#35. Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#36. Sometimes the price of doing the right thing is higher than we realize when we do it.
Rachel Aaron
#37. These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.
James Riley
#38. You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
John Flanagan
#40. I don't think I'm old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would like say is that as long as you're having fun, I think you're doing the right thing.
Sania Mirza
#41. Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.
Katie McGarry
#42. Be strong enough to carry the burden of sin that goes with doing the right thing.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#43. If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.
Scott McNealy
#44. 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
#45. I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes of one's own than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. 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
#47. Doing the right thing will never be the easy path of indifference
that will always be Satan's way.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
Russ Feingold
#49. Coco, not a day goes by that I don't regret what happened between us. I thought I was doing the right thing, but I made a mistake. And it cost me the love of my life.
Melanie Harlow
#50. Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.
Colin Myles
#51. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.
Pauly Shore
#52. People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.
Matt Damon
#54. Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.
Natalie Lloyd
#55. I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.
Louise L. Hay
#56. I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.
John Flanagan
#57. That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.
Robert Jordan
#58. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
Jonathan Maberry
#59. You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
LeBron James
#60. Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.
Christopher Fowler
#61. Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
Simon Sinek
#62. I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.
Emilia Fox
#63. But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible ...
Lemony Snicket
#64. The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
Andrew McCarthy
#65. I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
Diane Abbott
#66. Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Aldo Leopold
#67. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.
Charles De Lint
#68. Maybe doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is better than doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. At least it feels that way.
Kristen Chandler
#69. In that moment, Iseult knew what she had to do. Logic didn't matter, nor Threadwitch practicality, nor even the opposing halves of her heart.
What mattered was doing the right thing.
So Iseult made her choice, and she ran.
Susan Dennard
#70. I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Danny DeVito
#71. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.
Laszlo Bock
#72. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
#73. The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
John Lasseter
#74. It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.
Portia De Rossi
#75. About Siri . . . Snuffles?" said Harry. "No . . . not exactly . . ." said Hermione slowly. "More . . . wondering . . . I suppose we're doing the right thing . . . I think . . . aren't we?" Harry and Ron looked at each other.
J.K. Rowling
#76. He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now ... in the long run, ending it here, before she learned the truth about him, was the only thing he could do.
Elisabeth Naughton
#77. Was I doing the right thing? Or being stupid for not following Liam's plan? Only time would tell. For now, I had to believe that whatever move kept Liam safe was not only the right solution, but the only solution.
Laura Marie Altom
#79. Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
Marcia Angell
#80. Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.
Susan Estrich
#81. He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do
Milan Kundera
#82. Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
Epictetus
#83. Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.
Gemma Malley
#84. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#85. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
#86. I don't want my children to obey only because they fear consequences or worry that Mom will lose it. I want to know their hearts understand and grasp the joy to be found in doing the right thing. This requires parenting through the daily grind with a long-term mentality.
Courtney Defeo
#87. I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
Patrick Warburton
#88. You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.
Kelly Link
#89. It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.
Bernhard Schlink
#90. People will always stop you doing the right thing if it's unconventional.
Guy Spier
#91. Put simply, the link between creativity and dishonesty seems related to the ability to tell ourselves stories about how we are doing the right thing, even when we are not. The more creative we are, the more we are able to come up with good stories that help us justify our selfish interests.
Dan Ariely
#92. Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
Abby Wambach
#93. He used to tell me that what really matters is having character and integrity, and that means always doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Joseph Hayes
#94. Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Jodi Picoult
#95. Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.
Simone Elkeles
#96. True beauty is doing the right thing when you know no one is looking,
Joe Hart
#97. I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
Bobby Knight
#98. I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people, when it is absolute poison, when it is absolutely destructive.
Matt Dillahunty
#99. You're hated by some, loved by others, but that's what's great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you're not doing the right thing most of the time.
Bernard Hopkins
#100. People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
Warren Buffett
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