Top 100 The Right Thing Quotes
#1. I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Ratan Tata
#2. 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
#3. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Caterina Fake
#4. People will always stop you doing the right thing if it's unconventional.
Guy Spier
#6. You're not evil," he had whispered, those bright, solemn blue eyes staring into me, peeling away every defense. "No one who fights so hard to do the right thing is evil.
Julie Kagawa
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.
Richie Norton
#11. 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
#12. I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
Stephen Covey
#13. 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
#14. It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
Sean Parker
#15. I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing. Vic
Joe Hill
#16. 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
#17. My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.
Robertson Davies
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
Zig Ziglar
#21. What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
David Plouffe
#22. I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.
Mary Schapiro
#23. 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
#24. When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
Paul Newman
#25. 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
#26. They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.
George W. Bush
#27. For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea ... we
Simon Sinek
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I want you to understand how people see you, and how your actions matter ... You must learn that your place in the world is important. You've been given the power to affect people, just as we all have, and it's important
no, vital
that you do the right thing with it.
Paige Harbison
#31. To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.
John W. Roper
#32. It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. 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
#34. Dont Cry Cause He Left You Smile Cause He Did The Right Thing...
Princess
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
#39. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.
Gemma Malley
#43. I know it's not the right thing to say, but I'm really happy with my body.
Anne Hathaway
#44. Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville
#45. 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
#46. Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
Epictetus
#47. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Winston S. Churchill
#48. People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.
Tyler Perry
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.
Susan Estrich
#57. 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
#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. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
Marcia Angell
#65. 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
#66. 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
#68. But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
Thomas Haden Church
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#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. You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!
Adrian Grenier
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron
#87. 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
#88. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Saul D. Alinsky
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
John Ortberg
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
Tim Robbins
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