Top 1200 Doing The Right Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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.

I've always had this dream of doing an art gallery thing, and it was just finally, 'All right, let's do it.'

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character invective, except of course the most important thing: the belief that they are in the right, and are even doing good by making the object of their contempt feel really, really bad.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient. At that moment, honestly, I had grave doubts as to my ability to interact on such a level. I wondered if I could ever become the human I hoped to be.

The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.

You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

Taking a close look at all technical options is the right thing for them (AOL and MSN) to be doing.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.

Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

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.

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

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.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

If it's one thing my parents did right, it was teaching me to have a good work ethic, and I plan on doing the same with my kids!

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.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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.

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

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.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.