Quotes tagged as "doing-the-right-thing" Showing 1-30 of 62
"You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward." ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right." ― Roy T. Bennett
"If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say." ― DaShanne Stokes
"If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what's right." ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
"Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good." ― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire
"Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.
And very, very rarely - by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute - you get the chance to do the right thing." ― Lauren Oliver
"Doing the right thing even when no one is looking is easy if I remember that I am not in this life alone and that my task is to please God... not people." ― Sandra C. Bibb
"Taking a shortcut isn't always profitable, doing the right thing may take longer but just trust the process, your reward is sure!" ― Hopal Green
"Jordan B. Peterson says self-esteem doesn't exist… and that SE training mostly results in narcissism. Jack Canfield says he wrote his first book about it. And guess what? They've BOTH been to Harvard! What are we to do in this confusing world? I started going to AA meetings and people there tell you to find a loving God… and then to get a job at the Kroger… Something's wrong with this picture. If self-esteem exists, and I pray to God that it does, I cannot possibly find a job that will pay me enough money without undermining the dignity of my work, after all this Spirituality, and Sobriety, and Self Esteem & Therapy I've accumulated.... don't make me laugh. And I'm a bright guy, too. Officially." ― Dmitry Dyatlov
"Sometimes it's best to do what feels safe, and sometimes it's better to do what you know is right, even though the cost may be high." ― Deborah Wiles, Revolution
"The truth is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it"." ― Venugopal Acharya
"…but young Sam was watching him, across thirty years. When we break down, it all breaks down. That's just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough you can bend it in a circle, but you can't break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there's nothing unbroken. It starts here and now." ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
"there have been plenty of good people in prison from time to time" ― Jeffrey Mishlove
"A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense." ― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
"Success is not only in having or being in a dream. It is in doing." ― EBINEZAR GNANASEKARAN
"Yeah, I guess I am a sadistic piece of shit. What can you do? What else is there to do? My grandfathers were Soviet officers in Germany. They were Men. Now what is my Father? he's a little bitch who ran away from Russia in 1998. What's his fate? Well. He's gonna get fucked in the ASS with so many different things, you can't even imagine." ― Dmitry Dyatlov
"I think that God puts people in our lives as gifts to us. The children in your class this year, they are some of God's gifts to you. So please treat each one like a gift from God. Every single one.
Baby, if you see a child being left out, or hurt, or teased, part of your heart will hurt a little. Your daddy and I want you to trust that heartache. Your whole life, we want you to notice and trust your heartache. That heartache is called compassion, and it is God's signal to you to do something. It is God saying, Chase! Wake up! One of my babies is hurting! Do something to help! Whenever you feel compassion, be thrilled! It means God is speaking to you, and that is magic. It means he trusts you and needs you." ― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
"We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?" ― Susan Meissner, The Shape of Mercy
"Let us do the right thing, there are those who will understand." ― Anthony Ejefoh
"To be HONORABLE means: Not having to think twice about DOING THE RIGHT THING." ― Captain Samuel Marshall Watson (Father of Marsha Carol Watson Gandy)
"There is Right---and there is Wrong.....You do One, and YOU ARE LIVING.....You do the Other---and You may be walking around---But---YOU are as Dead as a Beaver Hat." ― John Wayne, the "DUKE" - American Hero
"Challenging yourself to always do the right thing is the greatest challenge." ― Ojingiri Hannah
"It's important to keep looking in the right direction." ― Bert McCoy
"But the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do, I went on, is to actually do the right thing." ― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
"Things do not change: we change." ― Henry David Thoreau
"Being good is not a state of mind, it is a constant struggle. - On Being Good" ― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening
"With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle in darkness, hidden from the Word that brings the light." — Paul Hill Paraphrasing of Edmund Burke, John Dalberg, and John 1:1-5 quotes." ― Paul Hill
"We preferred to imagine ourselves on the right side of things, including history. We preferred to stand side by side, thinking despising thoughts about people who were long dead and the mistakes that they'd made, instead of thinking despising thoughts about one another and about the mistakes we were right now making each moment." ― Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
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