Right Thing Quotes - Page 11

• He wished he could reassure his 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.

  Jess Walter

  Mother, Men, Things In Life

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• You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

  John Knowles

  Running, Thinking, Long

  John Knowles (1969). “A separate peace”, Bantam Books, 1966

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• Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Evil, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

  Kami Garcia

  Crazy, World, Want

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• When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

  Paul Newman

  Things To Do

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• Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Want, Letting You Go

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• Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Simple, Done

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.32

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• I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

  Lou Holtz

  People, Goal, Effort

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• I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Office, People

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• 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

  Perfect, Awkward, Timing

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.65, Macmillan

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• 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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• In one afternoon, my entire life shattered and then all of a sudden this great guy comes along like some mythical knight in shining armor. He's gorgeous, loaded, and says all the right things to me. He makes me feel like I can fly, and every time he shows up, he makes everything better. I'm not used to this, okay? And I'm not used to being with a guy who is so incredibly sexy that he makes me feel like the booby prize." - Bride

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sexy, Knights, Shining

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.130, Macmillan

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• He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Inspired, Said

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• The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

  Daniel Keyes

  Children, Book, People

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

  Lois Lowry

  Life, World, Sometimes

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

  Candace Bushnell

  Block, Real, Thinking

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• I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Thinking, June

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Beautiful, Father

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• There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

  Nora Roberts

  Disgrace, Behinds, Staying

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Rebellion & In From The Cold: The MacGregors”, p.158, Penguin

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• And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Worry, Doe

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• Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

  Tamora Pierce

  Powerful, Husband, Eye

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Done, Shame, Feels

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• Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

  Danielle Steel

  Worry, Right Time

  Danielle Steel (2013). “Until The End Of Time”, p.83, Random House

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• I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

  Christina Dodd

  Thinking, Civilization, Differences

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