Right Thing Quotes - Page 26

• Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

  Theodore Levitt

  Littles, Matter, Improvement

  Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Tragedy, Important

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, World, Right Thing To Say

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

  Gordon Bethune

  Want, Failing, Results

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• As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

  Michael J. Fox

  Next

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  James Spader

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  The Olympian, October 04, 2005.

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• Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.

  Sharron Angle

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "Angle’s position on working families draws criticism" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.

  John Boehner

  Mean, America, Doe

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  Tony Blair

  Couple, War, Struggle

  BBC Question Time's election special programme, April 28, 2005.

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• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Children, Three

  "Angelina Breastfeeding: Pitt’s Private Photo And A New Interview", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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• The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Team, Mean, Self

  "Glenn interviews Newt Gingrich". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com.

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• Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

  Theodore Roethke

  Men, Mystery, Prisoner

  Theodore Roethke, “The Right Thing”

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Angel, Men

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 13, archive.org. 1971.

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• A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

  George Sutherland

  Pigs, Nuisance, May

  Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, (388), 1926.

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• There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

  Larry Wall

  Obvious Things, Obvious

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• What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

  Iain Banks

  Knowing, Study, Things To Do

  "Use of Weapons (The Culture, Book 3)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter Ten, p. 316), September 13, 1990.

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• What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Action, Things To Do

  "Cheney, Edwards spar over Iraq policies". Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

  Will Arnett

  Mistake, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

  Dean Kamen

  Organization, Innovation, Needs

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, People, Trying

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.15, Da Capo Press

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• You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

  Kelly Link

  Mistake, People, Narrative

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