Right Thing Quotes - Page 25

• We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Progress, Reason, Stage

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.29, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, Have Faith, Happens

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• One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mean, Blessing, Church

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• Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.

  Lynn Forester de Rothschild

  Hard Work, Passion, Knowing

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• A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Nice, Worry

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.206, Dial Press

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• That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Sickness, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

  Paul Hawken

  Feel Better, Thinking, Want

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Bored, Seductive

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• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accord

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, What Matters, Mind

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• The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right
  thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Motivation, Real

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• I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Things To Do, Convinced

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• I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Differences

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Ideas

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Space

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• Please act in and through me. Please let my love increase, if it is your will. I feel that's the right thing; but even if it's not the right thing, I'm willing to abide by your judgment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Judgment, Increase

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• Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Be Kind, Guides

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• You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

  Sara McMann

  Doors, Order, Things In Life

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• A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

  Duane Ludwig

  Book, Artist, Mma

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• Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

  Roy Ash

  Humorous, Doubt, Policy

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• I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

  Sara McMann

  Believe, Doors, Order

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• There's nothing wrong with fighting for the right things.

  Quinton Jackson

  Fighting, Mma

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• Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

  Clare Balding

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

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• The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Focus, Signatures

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