Quotes About The Right Thing To Do

#1. But sometimes, minding your own business isn't the right thing to do. Sometimes, you need to confront the evil in the world. I tried to ignore that for too long and people got hurt.

Elizabeth Hunter

#2. To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Jeremy Bonderman

#3. Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.
None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.

Howard Tayler

#4. I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

Clive Palmer

#5. I don't believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or settling for any of the modern trends that favor comfort over politeness, ease over style. Manners are simply about asking yourself, What's the right thing to do?

Tim Gunn

#6. My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

Kathryn Hahn

#7. I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

Sonia Gandhi

#8. The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Norm Coleman

#9. America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,

Lloyd Blankfein

#10. Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

Mark Dayton

#11. But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

Caroline B. Cooney

#12. I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.

Randy Falco

#13. The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

Ari Fleischer

#14. When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.

Donna Edwards

#15. Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do.

Choa Kok Sui

#16. Only God can judge him and his family for the way they treated you. Here, on earth, the right thing to do is forgive.

Kristen Ashley

#17. 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

#18. To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Confucius

#19. Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Robert Gibbs

#20. What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Iain Banks

#21. Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

Mike Quigley

#22. Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

Maureen Dowd

#23. Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.

Colin Myles

#24. We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

Wendell Berry

#25. If leaving is the right thing to do, then I'll hurt myself to keep from hurting you, to keep you safe.

Stephenie Meyer

#26. All my most unreachable dreams were suddenly, so unbelievably, about to come true. But they were forbidden. The right thing to do would be to pull away, turn from him, run back to the house. My head screamed at me to flee, but my heart begged me to stay.

Cindy Ray Hale

#27. There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

Rick Santorum

#28. What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Epictetus

#29. Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Travis Bradberry

#30. You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Simon Sinek

#31. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Michelle Moran

#33. it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it.

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Toni Morrison

#34. Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.

Jack Antonoff

#35. Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

Chris Fabry

#36. I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.

Norman Finkelstein

#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. It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

Neil Jordan

#39. Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

Russell Peters

#40. When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

Michelle Obama

#41. 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

#42. I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.

Sissy Spacek

#43. Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

K. A. Paul

#44. Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeline Kahn

#45. Then he strode across the room and kissed her.
It was a crazy, impulsive act, but the minute his lips touched hers he knew it was the right thing to do.
She tasted like sex and sin and forbidden fruit, and he couldn't get enough.

Kate Davies

#46. Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

Porochista Khakpour

#47. The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Daniel Keyes

#48. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Martin McGuinness

#49. 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

#50. I didn't know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki's advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do

Maria V. Snyder

#51. The right thing to do is doing whatever you think is the right. Because everything you do, people will not consider them right unless it is according to their benefits. So the right thing for you is to decide doing things they are right, whether they are told to be right, or not right.

M.F. Moonzajer

#52. Kissing a woman's hand is never the right thing to do; it is either too much or too little.

Melchior Lengyel

#53. 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

#54. It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Joan Blades

#55. Harry resumed the patting of his elbow, saying as he did so (for the potion seemed to indicate that it was the right thing to do),

J.K. Rowling

#56. Now he had to decide
what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.

Andreas Eschbach

#57. I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

S. Elle Cameron

#58. Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do ... implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Douglas B. Reeves

#59. I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

Jeb Bush

#60. Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Rick Warren

#61. I love her and we make each other happy. But if our happiness makes so many people unhappy, is it the right thing to do?

Chetan Bhagat

#62. Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

Madisen Beaty

#63. Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

Robin M. Bertram

#64. If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

Muhammad Yunus

#65. Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Charles Studd

#66. I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

Gerald R. Ford

#67. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

#68. Life is all about choices, Blaise. You can choose to take the next step in a situation because it's what you think is the right thing to do. You can also choose to follow your heart. Let it lead you.

Kaylee Ryan

#69. That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

Marisa De Los Santos

#70. It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Christopher Paolini

#71. The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#72. Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

Russel Honore

#73. When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

Paul Newman

#74. There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Jodi Picoult

#75. I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

Edward Snowden

#76. It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Sean Parker

#77. If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

Rick Warren

#78. The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Janet Reno

#79. I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

Haruki Murakami

#80. What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

Dennis Farina

#81. People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Frederick Lenz

#82. Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.

David Edward Kirk

#83. I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

Paul Watson

#84. Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

Richard Bach

#85. It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The

Michael Punke

#86. The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

Mark Dacascos

#87. Lesson: Choose the tougher trail, it is always God's plan and is the right thing to do.

Rami F. Odeh

#88. To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

Thomas Nagel

#89. 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

#90. I'm not a Knight. I'm a Bishop. Or at least I am trying to be. And traveling with you is the most slantwise, backward thing I can possibly think of, which in this place probably means it's the right thing to do.

Catherynne M Valente

#91. My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.

Joe Pesci

#92. I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

Glennon Melton

#93. He was psyching himself up for what he had planned for that evening, convincing himself it was the right thing to do. The only thing to do. Plus, he was absolutely terrified and he didn't want the others to notice.

James Dashner

#94. When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

Howard Fineman

#95. If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don't know if that's the right thing to do. if I lift open the lid now, you'll be implicated. Is that what you want? You really want to know something I've sacrificed so much trying to forget?

Haruki Murakami

#96. The truth of the matter is that we always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Sarah Jio

#97. I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.

Barack Obama

#98. It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Frank Luntz

#99. 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

#100. I know with both of my hearts that rescuing this kid was the right thing to do.

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