doing the right thing Quotes

“We ought always to try to influence other people for good.”

“I felt anger and fear and pain coming from him, but I didn’t back away, I stayed right there, and knew I had done the right thing when he buried his face in my neck and cried some more.”

“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”

″Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? You may have causes, goals, interests. Are they even worth pursuing?I’ve long held on to a clipping from a newspaper in Roanoke, Virginia.It featured a photo of a pregnant woman who had lodged a protest against a local construction site. She worried that the sound of jackhammers was injuring her unborn child. But get this: In the photo, the woman is holding a cigarette. If she cared about her unborn child,the time she spent railing against jackhammers would have been better spent putting out that cigarette.″

“The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place.”

“It is a promise of God that when you do the right thing, an even better thing will happen... If you take one step, He’ll take two.”

“If you’re honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you’re forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.”

“When I am willing to do the right thing I am rewarded with an inner peace no amount of liquor could ever provide.”

“I have not always done the right thing. When I was younger...I did worse things than Jack. Worse than any of them. I was the monster, then, Bod, and worse than any monster.”

“I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice.”

“But ever since you tole it to me, that’s what I been goin by. I been lettin the ‘tide’ carry me and tryin to do my best. Do the right thing.”

″‘You would have thought more of me if I’d let that dog wander around till Judd found it again, kick the daylights out of ‘im?’ I ask. ‘I want you to do what’s right.’ ‘What’s right?’ For once in my eleven years, I think I have my dad stumped.”

“Courage is doing what is right.”

“All my life I’ve been doing things because other people said they were the right things to do. This time I’m going to do something because I say so —even if you and everyone else thinks I’m mad.”

“The older man thinks the most important thing is for a police officer to do the right thing. the younger thinks it’s more important to do things correctly.”

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it;

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

“Daily Muff Potter’s gratitude made Tom glad he had spoken; but nightly he wished he had sealed up his tongue.”

“Sid, there’s only one person in this town mean enough to do that, and that’s you. If you had been in Huck’s place you’d ‘a’ sneaked down the hill and never told anybody on the robbers. You can’t do any but mean things, and you can’t bear to see anybody praised for doing good ones. There—no thanks, as the widow says”

“What are you going to do? O, George, don’t do anything wicked; if you only trust in God, and try to do right, he’ll deliver you.”

“I’m a wicked girl to leave her so; but, then, I can’t help it. She said, herself, one soul was worth more than the world; and this boy has a soul, and if I let him be carried off, who knows what’ll become of it? It must be right: but, if it an’nt right, the Lord forgive me, for I can’t help doing it!”

“Now, John, I don’t know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.”

“Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.”

“It’s pretty generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.”

“What we do we are conscience bound to do; we can do no other way.”