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
Short Rights Quotes
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. — Napoleon Hill
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. — Lao Tzu
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. — Napoleon Hill
Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. — Pope Francis
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. — Seneca
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
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
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
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
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
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 is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Robert H. Schuller
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
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. — J. C. Watts
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
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
Try To Do The Right Thing Quotes
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you. And stay. — Will Smith
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off. — Colin Powell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought — Abraham Lincoln
Always Do The Right Thing Quotes
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. — LeCrae
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
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
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
Make The Right Decision Quotes
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation. — Narendra Modi
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
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. — Temple Grandin
Our companies communities and countries don’t necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They’re constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. — Adam Grant
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. — William Pollard
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh
Make The Right Choice Quotes
In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled
People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. — Deepak Chopra
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. — Eleanor Roosevelt
There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights. — Maajid Nawaz
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. — Mary Tyler Moore
The single most important thing people can do for their health is to make the right food choices. And the single most important thing they can do for the planet is also to make the right food choices. We haven’t emphasised that yet, but it’s coming. — Tim Spector
Making The Right Decision Quotes
If you support Ukraine joining NATO then you support the US fighting a hot war with Russia right now. I don’t care what your reasoning is. If you support that, you are a dangerously insane person who should never be allowed to make these decisions. — Dave Smith
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond Spruance
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. — Ronald Fisher
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan — Bill Delahunt
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right. — Derrick Bell
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. — Paul Arden
I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason. — Derrick Rose
The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely. — Dan Ariely
Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action. — David Deida
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. — Bob Marley
There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. — Michael Faraday
One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser! — Jackie Gleason
Why put off kicking somebody's *ss next week when I can do it right now. — The Undertaker
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. — Victor Hugo
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. — Mark Twain
Champions keep playing until they get it right. — Billie Jean King
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. — Rita Rudner
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost
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