Right Thing Quotes - Page 14

• Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.

  Ernie Els

  Couple, Mean, Golf

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• I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.

  Brendon Ayanbadejo

  Thank You, Mother, Hero

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• It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

  Sandy Koufax

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

  David Duval

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Succeed, Failing

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• I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

  Brian Welch

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Success, Integrity, Soul

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• It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Integrity, Important

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• To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

  Thomas Nagel

  Believe, Psychology, Looks

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

  Charlie Crist

  Simple, Thinking, Psychology

  "Jim Morrison Is Candidate for Pardon in ’69 Arrest" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2010.

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• With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Fighting

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's Flight 93 memorial dedication speech, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2011.

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• If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Practice, People

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Commitment, Tragedy

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

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• All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Play

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• He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Way, Endure

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Hands

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Trying, Reform

  "'Times are tough', Blair admits". news.bbc.co.uk. November 3, 2005.

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• The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Inspirational, Abuse, Violence

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

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• Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Knowing, Challenges

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• Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Love, Life, Family

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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Power, Genius

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• Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

  Robert Breault

  Struggle, Long Ago, Parent

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• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  William James

  War, Years, Gentleman

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

  Joe Louis

  Pride, Names, Boxing

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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