Do The Right Thing Quotes

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

Everything, After, Else

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Joel Osteen

Good, God, Attitude

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Life, Truth, Courage

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

Success, Politics, Remember

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
Steve Harvey

Time, God, Successful

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Work, Hope, Give

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Winning, May

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren G. Bennis

Leaders, Managers

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
Lady Gaga

Play, Learned, Story

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair

Win, Sometimes, Wrong

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
Alexis Arguello

Good, Strength, Mind

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
James McGreevey

Life, Purpose, Lives

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Ross Perot

Talk, Texas, Plain

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron

Leadership, America, Moral

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
Ice Cube

Life, Work, Beautiful

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz

Time, Fact, Rests

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
LL Cool J

Money, Try, Here

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.
Spike Lee

Film, Union, White

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
Spike Lee

Working, Film, Felt

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
Tim Robbins

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
Kevin Costner

Politics, Business, End

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Become, Prejudice, Informed

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
Jim DeMint

Wrong, Sense, Order

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
Linda Evans

Marriage, Career, Him

I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Great, Stupid, Busy

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.
Kirk Cameron

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
Mehmet Oz

Life, Health, Diet

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
Idris Elba

Working, Actor, Lines

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