Right Thing Quotes - Page 40

• Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

  Alice Hoffman

  Done, Sometimes, Feels

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016

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• Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

  Philip Pullman

  Fear, Judging, Looks

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving Up

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.45, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Shining, Nephew

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.93, Harper Collins

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• I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Growing Up, Ocean

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

  Randy Alcorn

  Rip, Law, Giving

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• Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.

  Susan Mallery

  Trust Yourself, Trust Others, Happens

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• I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Coward, Looks, Done

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

  Justin Cronin

  Courage, Real, Believe

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.128, Dial Press

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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking

  "Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

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• The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fighting, Pride, Men

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• The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Self, Decision, Healthy

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Happiness, Real

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 04, 2016

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• I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

  Andy Warhol

  Interesting, Photographer, Wrong Things

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Dream, Thinking

  "The Power of Powerball: Why Dreaming Is Priceless" by Angie Sarhan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2016.

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, One Day, May

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• I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Shadow

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• There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Would Be, My Sisters Keeper, Easier

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Running, Risk, Would Be

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.19, Vintage

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• ...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Running, Hurt, Long

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

  Mira Grant

  Choices, Grace, May

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• The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

  David Levithan

  Caring, People, Bravery

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• I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fighting, Thinking, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (1998). “Someone Like You”, Viking Childrens Books

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• You love me,” he said. “That’s all I need to know.” “You always say the right thing,” Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. “Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Eye, Waiting, Needs

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