Right Thing Quotes - Page 17

• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Teacher, Compassion

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• When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.

  Price Pritchett

  Simple, People, Justice

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• I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Advice, Bats

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.352, Diversion Books

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• Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

  Donna Tartt

  Reality, Lessons, Succeed

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• The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Reality, Air, Issues

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• We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.

  Ann Veneman

  Country, Taken, Believe

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

  Jahmene Douglas

  Hurt, Kindness, Caring

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• When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

  Nelson Mandela

  Generations, Moments, Crisis

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.

  William Bernbach

  People, Way, Feels

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• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

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• Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

  Penelope Tree

  Changing Your Life, Moments, Right Moment

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• Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Children, Oxygen, Two

  "Does torture work?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Stars, Clever, Men

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cristiano Ronaldo pays tribute to 'the best manager in the world'". www.mirror.co.uk. November 5, 2011.

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

  Stendhal

  Air, Hands, Want Something

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

  Harry Browne

  Political, Would Be, Politician

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• Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Political, Exhausted, Politician

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• "Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."

  Wilbur Lucius Cross

  Life, Thinking, Choices

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• Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

  Aaron Feuerstein

  Long, Climate, Environment

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• I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

  Christopher Reeve

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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

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• When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Listening, Sculpture, Actors

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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• Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Brother, Django

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• One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

  Heber J. Grant

  Believe, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

  Bill Belichick

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  "An Open Letter to White NFL Players" by Rae Witte, www.complex.com. October 10, 2016.

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