Doing The Right Thing Quotes - Page 7

• You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Gratitude, Expectations, Rewards

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.232, Penguin

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• I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Sports, Player

  Interview with Cindy Crosby, www.bookreporter.com. December 7, 2007.

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• In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Character, Fighting, Gay

  "Welfare Reform: Pray for the Children?". MSNBC's "InterNight" with David Maraniss, archive.mrc.org. October 10, 1996.

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• Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

  Andrew Garfield

  Men, Spiders, Fellow Man

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• Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

  Don Peppers

  Business, Peppers, Trustworthy

  Don Peppers, Martha Rogers (2016). “Managing Customer Experience and Relationships: A Strategic Framework”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

  Thomas Jones

  Successful, Men, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• People do things in the names of good, and in the name of ideals, but the world isn't that simple. So they end up doing things that aren't necessarily good. Even if they think they're doing the right thing, but when viewed from a different perspective they can look barbaric and crazy.

  Matt Damon

  Crazy, Thinking, Simple

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.

  Matt Fraction

  Believe, Hard Work, Giving

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• Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Integrity, Mean, Right Thing

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• I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Memories, Believe, Enjoy Life

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Twenties, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Mind, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

  Emilia Fox

  People, Want, Faces

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• I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

  Oscar Isaac

  Fall, Hands, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  Kate Atkinson

  Law, Abiding, Path

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Bully, Horrible

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

  Sandra Bullock

  Helping Others, People, Parent

  Source: acttwomagazine.com

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• I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

  Gabrielle Union

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

  Deshaun Watson

  Right Thing

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, School, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, Our World, Culture

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesn’t is because of execution—people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on execution—on the ability to get things done.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Football, Block, Play

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• It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Planets, Our Planet

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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