Right Thing Quotes - Page 27

• Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, Fiction

  Bentley Little (2004). “The Resort”, p.300, Penguin

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• Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

  Michael Mullen

  Lying, Gay, Men

  "HUMAN RIGHTS Army Interrogator Discharged For Being Gay: John McCain 'So Out Of Touch With Modern Military'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. February 4, 2010.

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• Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fun, People, Surprise

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• I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Timing, Whole

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• If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.

  Mac Anderson

  Jobs, Believe, Hands

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• He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

  George Steinbrenner

  Team, Yankees, Jeter

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• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Chance, Language

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• You don't make stupid internet videos or show people you have too much free time, you just say the right things and they'll be like, "Damn this dude's a real person and I can relate to that." That can make somebody's life, that can make somebody's day, that can be a line that they never forget.

  Drake

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Drake Talks Young Money, Kanye Comparisons & Ghostwriting". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

  John F. Kerry

  People, Harry Truman, Franklin

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Mirrors, Decision

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.

  Trent Lott

  Country, Strong, Moving

  "Transcript: Sens. Dodd, Lott on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2005.

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• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Sleep, Kids

  "DUB Q&A: Adam Sandler". Press conference, www.dubmagazine.com. June 9, 2010.

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• No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

  Will Ferrell

  Dog, Decision, Screw Ups

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• Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

  Russell Peters

  Doe, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.rezxmag.com

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• That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Reason

  Source: blogs.wsj.com

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• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Leader, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'

  Tom Deacon

  Girl, Sex, Firsts

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• We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing

  David Wolfe

  Too Much, Eating, Enough

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• My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hands, Obligation

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• I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.

  Matt Fraction

  Believe, Hard Work, Giving

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• Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Alternatives, Wonderful

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• Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

  Hannah More

  Praise, Substitutes

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

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