Doing The Right Thing Quotes

Doing The Right Thing Quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Shane Warne, Bruce Rauner, Rene Girard, Michael Franti, Jimmy Graham and many others.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
If you scapegoat someone, it’s a third party that will be aware of it. It won’t be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother – they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance.
It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.
James Goodnight
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‘Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.’ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there’s always so many things that need to get done.
I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
It’s like, whether or not you’re humiliated or embarrassed or you do well is contingent on the choices that you make in your work. So that is a lot of pressure to be like, ‘Oh no, am I doing the right thing? Am I doing something cool? Am I doing something bad?’
I believe I’m doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you’re doing the right thing.
Is safety a business imperative? Yes. But is it also the right thing to do? Yes. And it’s important for companies to increasingly find that by doing the right thing, they’re fulfilling their business imperative.
Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there’s no reason why she shouldn’t be out here.
President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.
There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid number. And providers shouldn’t be sued for doing the right thing by blocking illegitimate spoofing.
People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.
If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.
You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.
Andrew McCabe
I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it’s better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.
I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I’ve learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.
There’s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you’re doing the right thing.
Stewart Baker
When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what’s right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what’s right for society.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I’m working with. If I’ve got no confidence in what I’m doing and they don’t provide me with some assurance that we’re doing the right thing then I bully people. I’m a horrible bully.
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?
I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to do with casting, more Iago than Hamlet. But I don’t play villains; I play people doing the right thing for the circumstances and time.
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody‘s going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
I told our employees several times, ‘Let’s focus on the end user, let’s focus on committing to society, and focus on the crisis and doing the right thing, show our corporate social responsibility.’ Don’t focus on marketing and sales. That’s horrible culture.
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning‘s foundation, Alicia Keys‘ foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can’t survive here more than minutes if you’re not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I’m doing the right thing.
We need to have a purpose in this life. I’m pleading with you, I’m begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
It doesn’t matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.
We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn’t appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.
Don Peppers
Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.
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.
Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we’re doing the right thing.
Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, ‘Okay, I’m doing the right thing for the environment; it’s cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.’ And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it’s cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.
There’s a price to pay for greatness. The price to pay is doing the right thing.
I think you have to be when you own your own business. I’m looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It’s incredible that we’ve been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.
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.
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.
Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you’re doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that and, “Well, I read Paul-Michel Foucault saying…” The world and the universe have a way of resolving themselves eloquently, I think, if you’re doing the right things.
The greatest bad guys, you understand where they’re coming from. They believe they’re doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s for greed, sometimes it’s for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they’re doing the right thing.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
There’s never one “ding-dong” moment.You never know for sure if you’re doing the right thing. Things don’t end all at once.
If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.
Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to…] figure out what [the right thing] is.
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it’s doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don’t have money need some help.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there’s nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, ‘I think that’s a great idea,’ or, ‘I think you’re doing the right thing.’
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I don’t know what religious people do. I kind of wished I’d been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn’t doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.
Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.
Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.
What is initiative? I’ll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I’m making a film, I feel most alive, like I’m doing the right thing, and I’m in the place where I need to be.
If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I’m doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
It’s always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you’re doing. If you feel like you’re doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.
When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn’t until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should’ve had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
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.
So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way.
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.
When I won the NXT women’s title from Natalya at Full Sail, becoming the second-ever woman’s champion for NXT, that’s when I knew, ‘Okay, I’m doing the right thing,’ and that I could do this.
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
It’s indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
If you have to do it, then you’re doing the right thing.
If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
I became a villain for doing the right thing.
Tony Hayward
Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.
As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
If you think you are doing the right thing, if you think you are on the right path, never be bullied. I’ve been bullied and I can tell you that I am one woman facing this system, patriarchy.
You can’t help some increase from this point. I don’t want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they’re going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we’re doing the right thing.
Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it’s going on and you’re in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
You look at all the athletes who come out of high school and college into professional sports. And they hit it big, they make money, and instead of saving their money, instead of doing the right thing, they go out and buy the biggest house, and the finest car, and then they get hurt, and it’s gone.
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planningprovides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
Politics isn’t just about doing the right thing. It’s also about winning.
Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you’re doing the right thing.
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
You can have the best of intentions and think you’re doing the right thing but you fall down when you’re going against your own instinct.
If Wikileaks didn’t resolve that question for folks – at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We’re living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.
George W. Jenkins
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I’m doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based.
When you’re caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.
Nobody thinks that they’re evil or bad, they think that they’re doing the right thing.
As an artist, you’re very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Am I making the right music?’
Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
We’ve been training since we were small. You definitely got to love it to be part of this family. We like to have fun. We like to work hard, and always staying out of trouble and always doing the right thing.
But often, it’s easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it’s automatic, outside the frontal cortex’s portfolio – Then it isn’t the harder thing, it’s the only thing you can do.
I don’t know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people when it is absolute poison. When it is absolutely destructive.
In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
IF YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU’RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Success is doing the right thing for who you are.
I don’t mind if my future is long or short, as long as I’m doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
When you’re winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you’re losing, that self-doubt is like, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I’m sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they’ll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
I’d like to not have to worry about image, about doing the right thing all the time. Not that I want to be a criminal or anything. I’d like to be able to do something wrong and not feel the whole world will know.
When you’re caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.
Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weВ’ve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. ItВ’s like that in football too.
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.
I believe that doing the right thing will not only create the best culture and the best product, but you’ll also make the most money – even if you’re making decisions that lose you money in the short term.
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.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one’s own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody‘s else advice.
I’ll keep doing the right things and the results will come
When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.
The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren’t really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.
I’m probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I’m part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that’s another theme that interests me. Because most people don’t intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing – in their mind.
The majority of [the troops in Iraq] is that feel they’re doing the right thing and their parents who have also made sacrifices, generally speaking, and their proud of the services of their sons and daughters.
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.
I continually ask myself if a decision I’m about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It’s actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.
Trust doesn’t develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.
Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.
Doing the right thing doesn’t always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I’d had a privileged education and an acting career.
Success in business doesn’t come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you’re doing the right thing.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can’t afford to make any mistake.
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
It’s all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
I think it’s always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
Sometimes I think it’s a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that’s – but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact, sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I’m wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
I’ve lost a lot. I’ve lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don’t think there’s ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a public official that didn’t think he was doing the right thing. I can’t think of one.
Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.
I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards.
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.
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
Do the right thing because it is right.
Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It’s not always easy, that’s for sure. But it’s right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal‘s office.
The race for Quality has no finish line – so technically, it’s more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don’t just think they’re evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can’t stop what they’ll do next.
Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
We don’t live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.