Right Thing Quotes - Page 20

• Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Integrity, Promise

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• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  People, Broken, Promise

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• Don't know whether I said the right things but I tried to! I have got to get used to it but I have said this before, what appears in cold print isn't necessarily what you actually say.

  Joe Fagan

  Cold, Used, Said

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• Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.

  Walter Smith

  Virginia, Needs, Problem

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• When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.

  Ward Cunningham

  Mistake, Trying, Cost

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 1, 2003.

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• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Way, Humans

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• Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

  Richard Branson

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Successful, People

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• What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ...If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Thinking, Views, Differences

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• Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Sick, Get Better

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• If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

  Rick Warren

  Inspiration, Worry, Reactions

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• The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

  Don Meyer

  Inspiring, Keys, Next

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• If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

  John C. Maxwell

  Positive, Thinking, Challenges

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

  Isaac Slade

  Sometimes, Hardest, Fray

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• Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Lasts, Comes And Goes

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• I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Thinking, Long

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  David Deida

  Blow, Storm, Energy

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• It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Mean, People

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• Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
  but be the right thing.

  Burning Spear

  Children, Men, Want

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• Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Believe, People, Doe

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• Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Investing, Things To Do

  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tim Kaine (2016). “Stronger Together”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Stars, People, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.202, Discovery House

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• When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

  Randy Pausch

  Stuff, Way, Last Lecture

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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