Top 100 Right Thing Quotes
#2. Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses
Robin M. Bertram
#3. 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
#4. Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.
Drake
#5. Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Aldo Leopold
#6. 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
#7. There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.
Jason Aldean
#8. ...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
#9. Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.
Richard Florida
#10. 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
#11. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.
Tabitha McGowan
#13. I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.
Gerald R. Ford
#14. It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
John Doerr
#15. When the right person does the wrong thing, it's the right thing.
Susan Sontag
#16. American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
Tim Robbins
#17. 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
#18. When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.
Price Pritchett
#19. Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
John Ortberg
#20. 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
#21. Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.
Jennifer Nettles
#22. At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.
John Sarbanes
#23. 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
#24. People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Saul D. Alinsky
#25. 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
#26. Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.
Sri Chinmoy
#27. Being a hero usually isn't much fun. It's terrifying, most of the time, right up until the point you make it out safe. It's being scared to do the right thing and doing it anyway.
Joshua C. Cohen
#28. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
#29. 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
#30. Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron
#31. 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
#32. Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.
Jennifer Lawrence
#33. The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.
Marilyn C. Nelson
#34. Liza made a sudden decision. "I'll be your friend," she announced. she had trouble speaking the words but was glad once she had spoken them. She did not really want to be friends with an enormous rat of questionable sanity, but it seemed the right thing to say.
Lauren Oliver
#35. 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
#36. I believed in my heart that despite politics, the United States would always do the right thing. My mind believed different, so I had made it sit quietly in the corner.
Patrick Thomas
#37. Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.
Philip Pullman
#38. I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
Emily Yoffe
#39. The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
Soren Kierkegaard
#40. You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!
Adrian Grenier
#41. 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
#42. I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turns to black light. If you hurt, even the comforts you are offered wound you. As you prosper, your failures prove to be just the right thing, perfect.
Bahauddin
#43. 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
#44. I've gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right thing BEFORE I do the wrong thing.
Allie Brosh
#45. Love is like a lion.
It's fierce and strong.
It conquers fear and uncertainties, and it knows how to fight.
Love fights to win and keep its mate, to do the right thing, to give to others in service, no matter what the cost.
Thea Harrison
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
Thomas Haden Church
#50. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!
Terry Pratchett
#51. 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
#52. Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
Marcia Angell
#53. 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
#54. You're polite and sensitive, and you always try to do the right thing by people. And according to my friend Kara - you remember the blonde woman from last night? - you wear a pair of jeans very well.
Leanne Hall
#55. When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.
Dwight Gooden
#56. Sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing
no matter the personal cost.
Glenn Beck
#58. She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?
Michael David Lukas
#59. Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.
Cheryl Strayed
#60. Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.
Susan Estrich
#61. Believe me ... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing ... I really do know about.
Andy Warhol
#62. Jon, wait before leave ... I did the right thing didn't I? It all worked out in the end.
'In the end'? Nothing ends Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
Jon? Wait! What do you mean by ...
Alan Moore
#63. 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
#64. I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again.
Shane McAnally
#65. I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Haruki Murakami
#66. 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
#67. I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
Elizabeth Edwards
#68. I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.
Demetri Martin
#69. People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.
Tyler Perry
#70. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Winston S. Churchill
#71. Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
Epictetus
#72. What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
Grant Heslov
#73. Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville
#74. I know it's not the right thing to say, but I'm really happy with my body.
Anne Hathaway
#75. Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.
Gemma Malley
#76. Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.
Michael P. Naughton
#77. My daddy taught me to always do the right thing, no matter what the consequences. When I would ask how I was supposed to know what was right, he'd just say, 'You'll know.' He was right, and so is this.
Bruce A. Borders
#78. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#79. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
#80. 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
#81. Knowing the right thing is wonderful; practicing the right thing is even more wonderful; and the most wonderful thing is that helping others to practice the right thing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. All of which isn't to say that Jeremy Fitzgerald did the right thing or the wrong thing. It's only to say this: love always changes everything.
Nicola Yoon
#83. 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
#84. Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
Augusten Burroughs
#85. Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Jodi Picoult
#86. It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The
Michael Punke
#87. 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
#88. Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.
Richard Bach
#89. 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
#90. My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'
Bernie Mac
#91. I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.
Allie Brosh
#92. mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the
Jess Walter
#93. As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.
Philip Caputo
#94. 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
#95. What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
Joseph Stiglitz
#96. 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
#97. I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#98. When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.
Ralph Marston
#99. 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
#100. I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
Gail Kelly
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