Quotes About Trying To Do The Right Thing

#1. It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Chris Patten

#2. Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.

Madeleine George

#3. No pretensions of goodness, of trying to do the right thing. We'd both wanted to embrace this fucked-up thing between us.

Leah Raeder

#4. You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesn't work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

Alison Pill

#5. The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

Thomas Sowell

#6. When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.

Ward Cunningham

#7. No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.

Jude Watson

#8. Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Ridley Scott

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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.

#14. First he accuses me of trying to do the right thing, and now he tells me he trusts me. What am I, a fucking priestess?

A.F.E. Smith

#15. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Maya Angelou

#16. 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

#17. Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

Samantha Stosur

#18. I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

Tracey Gold

#19. I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes.
"Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!"
"I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

Dan Brown

#20. There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

David Gergen

#21. People are so busy trying to do the right thing that they forget to Live. This robs away all the Excitement life has to offer. Do the right thing , but also Live!

R.v.m.

#22. I am sorry, for whatever it's worth... I was trying to do the right thing. - Blythe

Rachel Hawkins

#23. A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

Sam Hunt

#24. 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

#25. If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

Frank Lampard

#26. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King

#27. It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

Leonard Nimoy

#28. Well, Caroline, it's pleasant to be with a crowd of people all trying to do the right thing, same as we are.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#29. It sucks because you're trying to do the right thing, but the result isn't showing it. You're at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire." "You've only been a vampire for ten months." "My point exactly.

Chloe Neill

#30. Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

Jean Liedloff

#31. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.
And he's standing in front of me right now.
So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Screw it. Let the fates decide.

Stephanie Perkins

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

Christine Quinn

#36. Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing. Most people just do it subconsciously." A

Michael Lewis

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

Julian Casablancas

#40. There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

#41. 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

#42. Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

Peter Drucker

#43. I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example.

Nicklas Lidstrom

#44. You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.

Ian McLeod

#45. 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

#46. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

Pema Chodron

#47. Gods damn you, LOcke,'she whispered. The corners of her eyes glistened.
'Twice now? Look, uh, if I said the wrong thing
'
'No,' she said, wiping at her eyes, trying but failing to do so nonchalantly. 'No, the trouble is you said the right thing.

Scott Lynch

#48. Yes. You're the only thing that matters right now." Michael, swaying a little over me, said, "You're trying to talk yourself into hating me when all I'm trying to do is keep you alive.

Nenia Campbell

#49. 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

#50. Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.

Janice Hardy

#51. I plan to stand up and be counted. And the thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna do what we're gonna do right now. I'm going to the people and say, 'Now this is what I'm trying to do.' And I'm going to do this because I believe the people need representation.

Paul Eggers

#52. I try to do the right thing at the ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#53. 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

#54. The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

John Redwood

#55. The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

Rush Limbaugh

#56. No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Mary J. Blige

#57. A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

Michael Josephson

#58. If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

Charles Kettering

#59. 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