Right Thing Quotes - Page 22

• The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, World, Right Thing To Say

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

  Gordon Bethune

  Want, Failing, Results

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• As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

  Michael J. Fox

  Next

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  James Spader

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  The Olympian, October 04, 2005.

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• Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.

  Sharron Angle

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "Angle’s position on working families draws criticism" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  Tony Blair

  Couple, War, Struggle

  BBC Question Time's election special programme, April 28, 2005.

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• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Children, Three

  "Angelina Breastfeeding: Pitt’s Private Photo And A New Interview", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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• The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Team, Mean, Self

  "Glenn interviews Newt Gingrich". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com.

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• Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

  Theodore Roethke

  Men, Mystery, Prisoner

  Theodore Roethke, “The Right Thing”

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• Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Lasts, Comes And Goes

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• I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Thinking, Long

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  David Deida

  Blow, Storm, Energy

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• It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Mean, People

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• Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
  but be the right thing.

  Burning Spear

  Children, Men, Want

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• Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Believe, People, Doe

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• What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Action, Things To Do

  "Cheney, Edwards spar over Iraq policies". Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

  Will Arnett

  Mistake, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

  Dean Kamen

  Organization, Innovation, Needs

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

  Kelly Link

  Mistake, People, Narrative

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• Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, Fiction

  Bentley Little (2004). “The Resort”, p.300, Penguin

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• Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

  Michael Mullen

  Lying, Gay, Men

  "HUMAN RIGHTS Army Interrogator Discharged For Being Gay: John McCain 'So Out Of Touch With Modern Military'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. February 4, 2010.

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• I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Talking, Boxing

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