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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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• People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

  Michael Josephson

  Life, Motivational, Character

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• Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Father, Needs

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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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• We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .

  Larry Page

  Love, Strong, Ambition

  "Google Beats Out Apple, Facebook, And Twitter For Most Popular Tech Brand: Poll" By Courteney Palis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Sports, Player

  Interview with Cindy Crosby, www.bookreporter.com. December 7, 2007.

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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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• If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Honesty, Men

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• With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

  Zig Ziglar

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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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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• A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

  Bob Kerrey

  Perseverance, Hero, Doe

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• The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Wise, Strong, Men

  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.11, e-artnow

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• If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, Creating, World

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• Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Rich Life, Inspire

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• Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Compounds, Doing The Right Thing

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Business, Opportunity, Community

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