Right Thing Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  Edward B. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mother, Men

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• I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and most specifically Ahmad Chelebi and the Kurdish leadership to set up an independent government of free Iraq. I think that would have been the right thing to do.

  Bernard Lewis

  Independent, Thinking, Support

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• 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

  Government, Trying, Reform

  "'Times are tough', Blair admits". news.bbc.co.uk. November 3, 2005.

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• The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Inspirational, Abuse, Violence

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

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• Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Knowing, Challenges

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• Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Love, Life, Family

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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Power, Genius

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• Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

  Robert Breault

  Struggle, Long Ago, Parent

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• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  William James

  War, Years, Gentleman

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Pride, Names, Boxing

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

  Alice McDermott

  Memories, Echoes, Gone

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• You can't make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself. I have my own morals I live by. Bill Cosby once said, 'I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.' I agree with that. I live my life my way. I try to do the right thing, but I know there are going to be people who aren't happy with what I do or say no matter what, so I'm not going to worry about it.

  B.J. Penn

  Successful, Keys, Worry

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