Right Thing Quotes - Page 33

• Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

  Halle Berry

  Looks, Paper, Way

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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• When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

  Ari Graynor

  Character, People, Males

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• If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.

  Bill Hybels

  Teaching, Red Flags, Kingdoms

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• South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Country, Giving, Health Workers

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• I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

  Glennon Melton

  Thinking, Self, Quitting

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2013). “Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Go do the right thing.

  Laura Schlessinger

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• To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

  Confucius

  Cowardice, Things To Do, Knows

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  Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Strong, Followers

  "Behind the Scenes on the Golden Globes Red Carpet: Plus, Backstage With Jennifer Lawrence After Her Win!". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 12, 2014.

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• The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

  Jeremy Luke

  Good Life, Price Tag, The End Of The Day

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• You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

  Henry Cloud

  Order, Want, Might

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• A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

  Henri Poincare

  Witty, Cat, Nerves

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• The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.

  Larry Winget

  Mind, Way, Easier

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.69, Penguin

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• When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Problem, Mets, Things To Do

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• The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

  Jim Rohn

  Differences, Ordinary, Doing The Right Thing

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• If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

  Paul Harvey

  Government, Self, Discipline

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• If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

  Scott McNealy

  Thinking, Would Be, Controversial

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• The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Successful, Army, Fate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.327, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Saving, Losing, Making Money

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• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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• Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

  Atul Gawande

  Struggle, Skills, Effort

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• The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Lying, Fall

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  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

  Jenson Button

  Want, Triathlon, Formulas

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• We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Thinking, Credit

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