Right Thing Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

  Ratan Tata

  Simple, Legacy, Ethics

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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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• The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Differences, People, Work Out

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

  John Ortberg

  People, Way, Reason

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Character, Kind, Forget

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• What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

  Grant Heslov

  Years, Long, Three

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• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

  Booboo Stewart

  Love You, Ifs

  "Meet Breaking Dawn's Booboo Stewart!". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Running, Soul, Coward

  "Andrew Hawkins delivered an excellent speech regarding his call for justice". Andrew Hawkins' speech on his decision to wear a "Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford" T-shirt during warm-ups and introductions before the game against the Bengals, waitingfornextyear.com. December 15, 2014.

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• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  Victoria Legrand

  Song, Gun, Trying

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• In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

  Lee R. Raymond

  People, Choices, Dimensions

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

  Laszlo Bock

  Inspiration, Creativity, Thinking

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• If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

  Gordon Livingston

  Maps, Agree, Ifs

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.1, Da Capo Press

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• Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Prosperity

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• Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Keys

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• "My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Moving, Successful

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 13, 2012

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• I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Growing Up, Fighting

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

  Jamie Bell

  Challenges, Would Be, Kind

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  New York, Years, Luxury

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