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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.


Theodore Roosevelt

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ZIG ZIGLAR And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN The time is always right for the right thing.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
ICE CUBE The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself....
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
WARREN BENNIS I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZ I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
PAUL FARMER If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
MARIANO RAJOY Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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ROBIN HOBB I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on w...
DAVID CAMERON The worst thing you can do is let it paralyze you into inaction.
JIM ELLIS Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
MARK TWAIN The Worst thing you can do to someone is it to pity on them...
KEERTHI RADHAKRISHNA JALIGAM The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.
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TRACY KIDDER I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing...
BEN VEREEN I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMAN It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, ... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
MAYA ANGELOU Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
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DAVID CAMERON The worst thing you can do is make money at the expense of losing your time.
J.R. RIM I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
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LYNDA PARISO The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
DENNIS T. MENACE As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
CAROL LEIFER Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
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JANDY NELSON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
SARAH DESSEN Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
BRUCE RAUNER The worst thing you can do to a Juggalo is not know about their weird subculture.
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REX TILLERSON The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants
MARK TWAIN If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The best thing you can do with your life, is to live it.
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JOHN HODGMAN If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
JULIETTE LEWIS The worst thing you can do if you missing someone or need them is let it hide from them.
POOJA If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
HENRY FORD The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
EDGAR WRIGHT You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to...
JEFF FITZGERALD To accuse a white Southerner of being a racist is about the worst thing you can do, ... 60 Minutes.
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JOEL OSTEEN Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way
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BEN BERNANKE I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
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WOHI PURANA Not exposing yourself to others is the best thing you can do for public health.
CHRIS WOODS The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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STEPHEN COLLINS There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself .
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FRANCESCA ANNIS The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, b...
JUSTIN HALPERN The right thing to do when a wrong decision has been made is to turn the wrong decision around by do...
TARY C. The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material....
ALFRED MOLINA If you focus on the statistics, that's the worst thing you can do in your life as a baseball player,
PLACIDO POLANCO I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am a part of everything that I have read.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and sel...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies o...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Put out the light.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can with what you have where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT