Right Thing Quotes - Page 19

• Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Trying

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• Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Integrity, Promise

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• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  People, Broken, Promise

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• Don't know whether I said the right things but I tried to! I have got to get used to it but I have said this before, what appears in cold print isn't necessarily what you actually say.

  Joe Fagan

  Cold, Used, Said

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• Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.

  Walter Smith

  Virginia, Needs, Problem

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• 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

  Mistake, Trying, Cost

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 1, 2003.

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• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Way, Humans

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• Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

  Richard Branson

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Successful, People

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• What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ...If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Thinking, Views, Differences

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• Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Sick, Get Better

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• 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

  Inspiration, Worry, Reactions

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• The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

  Don Meyer

  Inspiring, Keys, Next

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• If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

  John C. Maxwell

  Positive, Thinking, Challenges

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

  Isaac Slade

  Sometimes, Hardest, Fray

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• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Prize Money, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Noble

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Germany

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• And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

  Chris Terrio

  Thinking, Organization, Sometimes

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. Ocotber 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Hurt, People, Done

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• And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team

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• History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

  Michael Moritz

  Passion, Reform, Betrayed

  "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

  George W. Jenkins

  Way, Profit, Doing The Right Thing

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