Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. — J. C. Watts
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff
You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. — Charles F. Haanel
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Robert H. Schuller
When in doubt, do the courageous thing. — Jan Smuts
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Money will come when you are doing the right thing. — Mike Phillips
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. — J. C. Watts
Top 10 Do The Right Thing Quotes
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban
Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you. — Oprah Winfrey
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt
Do The Right Thing Image Quotes
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. — Victor Hugo
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Initiative is doing the right things without being told. — Elbert Hubbard
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
Just Do The Right Thing Quotes
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work. — Lucas Grabeel
Doing good deeds, it's not about the attention or anything. I just think it's the right thing to do. — MrBeast
You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it. — Dean Smith
You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
People need love more than they need advice. Most people know the right thing to do, they just need someone to believe in them. — Lex Fridman
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. — Anne Lamott
Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it. — Matthew McGrory
Think about what could go right.
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. — Val Kilmer
Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973. — Shelton Smith
The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it. — Ken Oshman
You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it. — Kristen Stewart
Courage To Do The Right Thing Quotes
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. — W. Clement Stone
Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be. — Tony Dungy
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
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do. — Blaine Lee Pardoe
Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life. — Emmanuel Petit
We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Jealousy is a good indication that you are doing things the right way. People never get jealous of losers.
We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued. — Mary Pipher
At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing. — Sal Albanese
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Integrity Do The Right Thing Quotes
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
We should always strive to do the right thing and to do our best to live with integrity. For me, integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — Chatri Sityodtong
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. — Tony Dungy
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. — Zig Ziglar
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. — Richard Bach
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances. — Thomas S. Monson
If you don't fit in, then you're probably doing the right thing.
Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness. — Cheryl Strayed
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. — Zig Ziglar
As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything. — Marian Wright Edelman
Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching. — Cherie Carter-Scott
Try To Do The Right Thing Quotes
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. — Warren Buffett
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. — Matt Dillahunty
Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them. — Don Shula
You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions. — Archie Manning
I’ve been sort of pleasantly surprised, by the extent to which a lot of people in D.C. are honestly just trying to figure out how they can do the right thing. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Practice things until you can't get them wrong. Not until you get them right. There's a big difference.
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. — Christopher Walken
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. — Stan Lee
After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing. — Fetty Wap
I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well. — Mark Zuckerberg
Moral Do The Right Thing Quotes
Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. — Michael Josephson
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever. — Donita K. Paul
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right thing to do. — Gwynne Dyer
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never right time to do a difficult thing.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. — Paddy Chayefsky
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do. — Sydney J. Harris
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious. — Bill Maher
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. — Robert Breault
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right. — C. S. Lewis
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
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too. — David Cameron
Choose To Do The Right Thing Quotes
Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. — Jack Welch
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing. — Andy Lau
[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing. — Jim Lee
EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing. — Philip Larsen
"Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ." — Wilbur Lucius Cross
Doing The Right Thing Quotes
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. — Henry David Thoreau
We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? — Wendell Berry
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. — Lou Holtz
Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time. — Bo Schembechler
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences. — Ban Ki-moon
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay. — Will Smith
My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well. — T. D. Jakes
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. — LeCrae
Do What Is Right Quotes
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. — Abdul Kalam
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. — Carter G. Woodson
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning — Ludwig van Beethoven
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. — Max Lucado
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now. — Priscilla Shirer
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. — Dorothy Day
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
Always Do The Right Thing Quotes
I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money. — Joe Louis
Americans will always do the right thing – after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives. – Winston Churchill. — Mark Sisson
We're so used to doing what we've always done that we don't stop to question whether it's the right thing to do at all. — James Clear
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing. — Marion Milner
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. — Bobby Knight
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. — David Cottrell
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. — Simone Elkeles
Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new. — Zig Ziglar
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi
One thing I’ve learned through all the ups and downs is that if you’re doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they’re on your side, you’re doing something right. — Hope Solo
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. — Albert Schweitzer
It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God. — Kaka
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. — Temple Grandin
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. — William H. McRaven
It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done. — Gregg Popovich
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. — Eason Jordan
The central idea is to create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible. — James Clear
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? — Robert Nozick
Learn to go first. Introduce yourself. Ask them out. Host the event. Voice an idea. Tell people what you want. You’ll face more rejections when things go wrong, but you’ll get all of the credit when things go right. The world rewards those who go first because so few people do. — Mark Manson
The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better. — Russell L. Ackoff
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