Right Thing Quotes - Page 24

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

  Booboo Stewart

  Love You, Ifs

  "Meet Breaking Dawn's Booboo Stewart!". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Running, Soul, Coward

  "Andrew Hawkins delivered an excellent speech regarding his call for justice". Andrew Hawkins' speech on his decision to wear a "Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford" T-shirt during warm-ups and introductions before the game against the Bengals, waitingfornextyear.com. December 15, 2014.

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• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  Victoria Legrand

  Song, Gun, Trying

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• In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

  Lee R. Raymond

  People, Choices, Dimensions

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

  Laszlo Bock

  Inspiration, Creativity, Thinking

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• If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

  Gordon Livingston

  Maps, Agree, Ifs

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.1, Da Capo Press

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• Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Prosperity

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• Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Keys

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• "My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Moving, Successful

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 13, 2012

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• I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Growing Up, Fighting

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

  Jamie Bell

  Challenges, Would Be, Kind

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  New York, Years, Luxury

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• It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

  Frank Luntz

  Emotional, Tears, Way

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• The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

  Janet Reno

  Success, America, Justice

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

  Tim Henman

  Results, Doing The Right Thing

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Bored, Seductive

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• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accord

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, What Matters, Mind

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• The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right
  thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Motivation, Real

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• I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Things To Do, Convinced

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• I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Differences

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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