Top 100 To Do The Right Thing Quotes
#1. I've always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that's never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I've been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.
Buck Brannaman
#2. Sometimes you have to trust people to do the right thing, or you can make yourself miserable while you look for demons that aren't there.
Gerri Russell
#3. Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX
#4. EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care ... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing ...
Philip Larsen
#5. 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
#6. That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.
Donald Trump
#7. Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.
Christopher Fowler
#8. 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
#9. I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.
Flavor Flav
#10. I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.
Pat Benatar
#11. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
Donita K. Paul
#12. 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. The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.
Rick Scott
#15. As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
Idris Elba
#16. I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Jeff Kinney
#17. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
Archie Manning
#18. Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.
Gary Haugen
#19. 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
#20. Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.
Larry Winget
#21. 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
#22. So I couldn't just pack my blue IKEA sack and go - I had to do the right thing. I had to preserve what was left of the goodness in my soul. But for the record, this was exactly why I never wanted to have friends. So much for being an island. Thanks
Camille Perri
#23. Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.
David Cottrell
#24. If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.
Brendan Halpin
#25. The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between you and your perfect, platonic future.
Seanan McGuire
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.
Jack Dorsey
#29. No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.
Will Ferrell
#30. 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
#31. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
Joe Louis
#32. In fact, her whole life, she'd done her absolute best to do the right thing. It was wonderful to be wildly, romantically in love at sixteen. But life wasn't romantic
Jennifer Greene
#33. Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.
Perry Moore
#34. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.
Kelly Bartlett
#35. 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
#36. America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
Edward Snowden
#37. That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
Ridley Scott
#39. Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.
Robert Armstrong
#40. No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.
Jude Watson
#41. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond
#42. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.
Anthony Liccione
#43. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris
D.G. Novak
#44. I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
Winston Groom
#46. I tried to do the right thing. Why couldn't you just let me leave? (Kellan)
S.C. Stephens
#47. America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
Winston Churchill
#48. To do the right thing you must sometimes defend people who don't understand you, or who fear you, or who are angry at you. There are times when you have to operate purely on faith and continue to trust human decency even when it is no longer visible.
G. Willow Wilson
#49. Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
Ed Royce
#50. 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
#51. Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.
D.G. Kaye
#52. The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
Lady Gaga
#53. There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.
Croft M. Pentz
#54. Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
Robert Breault
#55. There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
Edward Snowden
#56. Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.
Nancy Moser
#57. With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
Buck Brannaman
#58. ARPA's mandate - to support smart people in a variety of areas - was carried out based on the unwavering presumption that researchers would try to do the right thing and, in ARPA's view, overmanaging them was counterproductive.
Ed Catmull
#59. You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.
Charles F. Haanel
#61. Hypocrisy is a quality found in others. I am an optimist. I believe that saying the right thing will eventually cause people to do the right thing for me.
Bauvard
#62. We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
Amy Chua
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!
Adrian Grenier
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.
Tyler Perry
#75. 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
#76. My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.
Robertson Davies
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
Henry Rollins
#84. If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.
John C. Maxwell
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.
Allie Brosh
#89. 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
#90. You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.
Steven Van Zandt
#93. I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
Bill Ackman
#94. You need to hire and develop great people. You need to set the vision and trust them to do the right thing. You need to let go of control. That's wonderful for all involved because you're empowering and trusting your people to do what's right for the brand.
Frances Allen
#95. 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
#96. Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
Pat Conroy
#97. There is nothing too mysterious about Ray Porter, at least not in the usual sense of the word. He is single, he is kind, he tries to do the right thing, and he does not understand himself, or women, or his relationships with women.
Steve Martin
#99. I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is." "I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.
James S.A. Corey
#100. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Milton Friedman
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