Doing The Right Thing Quotes

“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

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“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

“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 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

“The truth of the matter is the people in the Empire are suffering. I am their princess. If they suffer, I should be in anguish. If they are left out in the cold, I should freeze. If they must endure a wound, I should bleed.”
― Israh Azizi, The Cavalier

“…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

“ALWAYS DO WHAT IS RIGHT. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― MARK TWAIN, American writer, lecturer, humorist

“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

“Some people cannot afford to believe that this country isn’t that bad, that as Hillary Clinton said, “America is great because America is good.” America hasn’t always been good. And the greatness, the power and wealth that white people have been afforded, did in fact, as Trump dog whistles with his “Make America Great Again” slogan, come from centuries of killing or otherwise exploiting and subjugating Native Americans, black people, poor people, women, immigrants. It is actually quite difficult to be good, to clean up the dirty laundry rather than let it accumulate on the floor. Everyone would like to believe that they would have been a stop on the Underground Railroad or hidden a Jewish family in their attic. No one wants to believe they’d have been the slave owner or a part of the crowd that gathered to watch the lynchings because it was something to do, or even the person who didn’t go, but didn’t do anything to stop it either.”
― Yaa Gyasi

“Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest thing in the entire world. Sometimes it costs you everything you have.' —Enid Healy”
― Seanan McGuire, Magic for Nothing

“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

“Doing the right thing is not a matter of convenience; it reflects your values and integrity.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I

“always do what you believe to be right, even if others mock or criticize you about it”
― Anath Lee Wales, your life can be changed.: the true guide to become a change maker!

“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

“Things do not change: we change.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“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

“There are lies and lies, backed by motivations and motivations. Some lies are incredibly noble. Now spot me the one lying about their nobility.”
― Anonymous Creator

“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free – and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn’t get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn’t rest; I couldn’t stay still in one place. It hadn’t ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more. I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame, because I didn’t run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn’t no use, conscience up and says, every time, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.” That was so – I couldn’t get around that noway. That was where it pinched.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“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

“Challenging yourself to always do the right thing is the greatest challenge.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Being good is not a state of mind, it is a constant struggle. - On Being Good”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“A life of integrity usually begins with saying no to compromise, facing the truth and doing what is right, even when it is difficult. It’s been said that if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But it’s also true that if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
― Steve Goodier

“Thaddeus absorbed her, imprinting his mind with her curly brown hair, her delicate chin, her gorgeous big eyes. “You need time to grow up, to find out who you are going to be. You need to do that without me lurking around like some… lecherous old man.”
Her lower lip trembled, but before she could protest, he cut her off. “I swim in a deep ocean of regret and self-recrimination, Esmeralda. I don’t need to add despoiling little girls to my conscience.”
“We have never done anything to be ashamed of. You’ve never done anything to be ashamed of.”
“And I plan to keep it that way,” he said in a strained voice. —Thaddeus ben Todd and Esmeralda ben Claude”
― Staci Morrison, M4-Sword of the Spirit

“It was the senior stew's position to be at the top of the ramp when the men got off in Vietnam. But when we were about two hours out she would usually ask for a volunteer to take the forward door. All you had to do is stand at the door and say good-bye, but nobody wanted that job. It's nothing disparaging about the other gals, but many just couldn't do it. I'd always take the forward door and I was good at it.
I never said "good-bye" or "good luck." I would shake their hand, look them in the eye, smile and say, "See you later." Sometimes I'd say, "See you in twelve months." They really wanted somebody to look at them. At the top of the ramp was the world, at the bottom of the ramp was the war. I saw eyes full of fear, some with real terror. And maybe this sounds crazy, but I saw death in some of those eyes. At that moment, at the top of the ramp, I was their wife, their sister, their girlfriend, and for those troops who had no one else -- and there were many -- I was their mother. That was the most important thing I´ve ever done. I can't imagine doing anything more important than to nudge a troop into war. If he wasn't lucky, I was nudging him to his death with the best "It will be okay" smile I could conjure up.
I don't think there was one of us who did not want to keep them on the plane. That's why some of the girls were back in the bathroom crying. They couldn't stand to watch them leave. We were very aware we were sending them to war and that some would never come back. Therein lies the guilt.
[Helen Tennant Hegelheimer, World Airways flight attendant accompanying American troops to Vietnam, 1966-67.]”
― Christian G. Appy, Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told from All Sides

“It's all right to feel afraid, you know." He smiled. "Being brave doesn't mean not feeling afraid. True bravery is feeling your fear, but going ahead and doing what's right anyway.”
― Kirsty Applebaum, The Middler