Right Thing Quotes - Page 9

• Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Moral Strength, Cost

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• A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Differences, Trying

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• If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

  Seth Godin

  Appreciation, Culture, Employee Engagement

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• Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

  Carrie Underwood

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Song: Mama's Song, Album: Play On, 2009

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• Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was loved and followed by more people than any chemist of our time.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Teacher, Inspiration, Science

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• Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing.

  Jonas Gustavsson

  Sports, Believe, Hockey

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• I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

  Clive Palmer

  Responsibility, Thinking, Interest

  "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 07, 2009.

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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Intelligent, Giving

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: "Understand Everything". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.

  Wes Fesler

  Determination, Determined, Quitter

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• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1830, e-artnow

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• Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Efficiency, Irrelevant

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

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• You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

  Maya Angelou

  Anxiety, Forgiving, Trying

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• It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I'm an optimist. I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I'm there with you every step of the way until that day comes...

  Russell Simmons

  Brother, Heart, Gay

  "It Is Not A Matter of If, But Only A Matter of When" by Russell Simmons, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2009.

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• Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Failure, World, Defeat

  "Recent Southern fiction: a panel discussion".

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• The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

  Jack Kemp

  Motivational, Men, Our Society

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• The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Inspiration, Attention

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• It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Breakup, I Love Myself, Way

  "Jennifer Lopez Gives Vanity Fair Her First Interview Since Announcing Her Divorce From Marc Anthony". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 2, 2011.

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• From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Unique, Expression, Voice

  "Though Control in the USA: The Case of the Middle East". "Index on Censorship" Magazine, July/August 1986.

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• Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mean, Helping, Intellect

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.27, e-artnow

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• I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

  George R. R. Martin

  Feels, Doing The Right Thing

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.686, Bantam

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• I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Looks, Sometimes

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

  James S.A. Corey

  Littles, Holden, Said

  James S. A. Corey (2011). “Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

  Joshua Harris

  Christian, Mean, Remember

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.82, Multnomah

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• Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

  Andy Warhol

  Timing, Should, Not Interested

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Thinking, Forever

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