Quotes on Doing The Right Thing

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

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.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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 daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

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

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

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

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

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.