Right Thing Quotes - Page 16

• Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  Samantha Morton

  Book, Self, People

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• I am a hell raiser. I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Believe, I Believe, My Own

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

  George Pelecanos

  California, Humanity, Shapes

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• I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

  Cristie Kerr

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

  Melissa d'Arabian

  May, Succeed, Failing

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• The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

  Andy Lau

  Next, Easier, Next Time

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• I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Married, Right Time, Things To Do

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• Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

  Sara Parkin

  Future, Mean, People

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• Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

  Don Peppers

  Business, Peppers, Trustworthy

  Don Peppers, Martha Rogers (2016). “Managing Customer Experience and Relationships: A Strategic Framework”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

  Robert Bork

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Grandchildren, Hands, Suffering

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• I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Thinking, Done, Parliament

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• Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Time, People, Genius

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• But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Optimism, Dawn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to remind people of the traditions and institutions that made this country great, who can re-create a society that is great once more. It's only by doing the right thing that this country is going to fix itself and survive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Survival

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• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  Edward Davey

  Thinking, Games, Issues

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.

  Will Wynn

  Country, Cities, Alternatives

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Teaching

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• Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

  Donna Ball

  Mother, Choices, Forgiving

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• As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Leader

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• Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Entrepreneur, Design

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• Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

  Hunter Lovins

  Smart, Environment, Sustainability

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• Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

  Linda Evans

  Independent, Careers, Alimony

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