Right Thing Quotes - Page 2

• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

  Stephen King

  People, Mad, Trying

  "The Stand". Book by Stephen King, September 1978.

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• Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Simple, Inspire

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

  Lights

  Fit, Honestly, Ifs

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• To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

  Helio Gracie

  Basketball, Art, Mma

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

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• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.32, Prabhat Prakashan

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  Malcolm X

  Self, Defense, Violence

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Goodbye, Mean, Fighting

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• My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?

  Spike Lee

  Believe, People, Together

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Block, Sneakers, Sides

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• Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

  James Carville

  Done, Sometimes, Reason

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• Do the right thing cause after the tears come the cheers.

  DMX

  Cheer, Philosophy, Tears

  Song: Angel-Dmx, Album: ...And Then There Was X

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• (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  School, Emphasis, Doing The Right Thing

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• Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."

  Neil Peart

  Mom, Dad, Forever

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Because I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority? I don't mean that we shouldn't try to do our best, but judgment and recrimination are such heavy weights. I find that accepting that we are all fallible lightens my load.

  Karen Dawn

  Mean, Issues, Priorities

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