Top 415 The Right Thing Quotes

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don’t know what that is and we all – you know, you won’t know until the future.
Amy Chua
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo
It’s nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
Neil Jordan
I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.
Lisa Murkowski
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
David Cameron
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
I’ve always felt that if you’ve been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that’s the right thing to do.
Larry the Cable Guy
There’s a price to pay for greatness. The price to pay is doing the right thing.
Rudy Ruettiger
I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.
Mark Henry
In situations, every time you see Kavya reacting in a way that is completely different from what the audience expects. That’s because she is a very positive soul. She’s the one who encourages Anupamaa to do the right thing and she can’t even stand Vanraj insulting Anupamaa.
Madalsa Sharma
If you're in government, the right thing to do is be fo

If you’re in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what’s the best solution to a particular problem.
Julius Genachowski
What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.
Rod Lurie
When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it’s hard, man. They brainwash you to think you’re doing the right thing.
Pauly Shore
When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.
Sergio Ermotti
We conservatives don’t have a corner on saying ‘no’. We’re just the ones who say it when it’s the right thing to say.
Mitt Romney
I believe I’m doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
Patrick Warburton
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
William A. Dembski
Don’t try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there’s just the right thing for you.
Scottie Thompson
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
Eve Hewson
I’m a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.
Judy Sheindlin
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.
Mark Esper
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.
Jason Kander
For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn’t seem like the right thing, because you didn’t fit in. You didn’t want to be too smart because you’d be a nerd. But then you didn’t want to be too dumb either because then you didn’t get the grades you needed to play.
Martellus Bennett
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Frank Luntz
I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
Gail Kelly
I’ve always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things that we do. There are a variety of issues that make it a very complex discussion as to whether it actually works as a business.
James Gosling
I’m a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw ‘Do The Right Thing’ twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.
Joe Cornish
Boxing’s a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don’t think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.
Carl Froch
For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I’m doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based.
Robert Gant
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.
LeBron James
That’s what I want to do with my life. Be a good person when all the lights are off. When everybody doesn’t need to see you, shine and know that you know you did the right thing at the end of the day.
Jabari Parker
You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.
Andrew McCabe
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.
Larry Page
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we’ll see. I’m taking it day by day.
Stephen Chbosky
But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
Thomas Haden Church
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother – they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
Alex Gibney
‘Do the Right Thing’ was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
Spike Lee
I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
Jessica Hahn
I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.
Ken Lucas
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack Obama
I’ve got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I’m a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
Peter Jones
I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Fl

I’ve taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.
Flavor Flav
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.
Rajkumar Hirani
One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don’t say ‘insecure’ in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: ‘Are they good enough?’ ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ I really beat myself up over that.
Bill Viola
If Wikileaks didn’t resolve that question for folks – at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We’re living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
With fashion, it’s all about timing and holding out for the right thing.
Andreja Pejic
I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there’s good in everyone, that God’s looking out for all of us.
Jacqueline Woodson
Businesses perform better when you have diversity of view in your senior leadership positions. This is not just the right thing to do socially; it’s the right thing to do for your business.
Ruth Porat
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
With the music that I’ve put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn’t always the right thing to do for yourself.
Skepta
I think anyone who doesn’t say that they’d like people to think that they’re doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I’d like it to be that way, but I’ve never allowed it to influence my actions.
David Stern
When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.
Suze Orman
Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.
Luciana Berger
Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Marilyn vos Savant
Businesses have played an important role in advancing nondiscrimination protections across the county because they have recognized that inclusion is the right thing to do and fairness and equality are good for business.
London Breed
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
Bernie Mac