Doing The Right Thing Quotes

But often, it’s easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it’s automatic, outside the frontal cortex’s portfolio – Then it isn’t the harder thing, it’s the only thing you can do.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company.

Trust doesn’t develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

There’s always going to be a need for activism; there’s always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

Doing the right thing has power.

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

If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.

That’s what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

The key is you have to keep doing the right thing. Do the right thing and stay around long enough, and you’ll keep getting parts. And if you don’t, you write your own parts, which I’m lucky to do. It’s like anything else: you get hot, you get cold, then you get hot again. You just keep working.

Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there’s nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, ‘I think that’s a great idea,’ or, ‘I think you’re doing the right thing.’

It’s indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I’d like to not have to worry about image, about doing the right thing all the time. Not that I want to be a criminal or anything. I’d like to be able to do something wrong and not feel the whole world will know.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think – really, truly think – that they’re doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

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.

If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.

You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you’re doing the right thing.