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, Jr.
Cheerful Doing Right quotations
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you. And stay.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.
Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Do the right thing because it is right.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.
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.
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.
If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it.
When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
What is the secret of success? Right decisions.
How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote.
Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.