Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo
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VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS 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 book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Gabril’s voice was strong and sure. “I believe in you, and I’ve fought for you, because in a w...
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CHRIS FUSSELL Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
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JANICE HARDY You can't make other people do "right."
All you can do is "right" yourself, and
sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO A deceptive gospel is when you are being told that you can get something without doing anything.
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KATE ATKINSON Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right
PETER F. DRUCKER You are doing well if you are not weary in well doing
SAJI IJIYEMI I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL It's his own initiative and I'm sure he'll do the right thing,
JOE VOLPE Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.
EHUD OLMERT There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been goi...
EVE HEWSON See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing if you're for the right thing then you'll d...
MAYA ANGELOU Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
ZIG ZIGLAR Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then you�...
MAYA ANGELOU Hugo and Pat told me they were going to burn the bodies.
PAUL WEAKLEY Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
PETER DRUCKER You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
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OPRAH WINFREY Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing...
MARCIA ANGELL Maybe that would be a good thing to do.
He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him m...
EMILY VEINGLORY Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped t...
LAUREN OLIVER I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that...
SUSIE BRIGHT The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly r...
EDWARD SIMMONS There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.
EOIN COLFER The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
ADOLF HITLER Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved.
TIM MONTGOMERY Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th...
J. C. WATTS I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doi...
DANNY DEVITO Without Your Opponent, You are no Victor.
ANAJO BLACK is dedicated to doing the right thing.
J. MURPHY It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ...
JAIME CONTRERAS We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do th...
JAMES MCGREEVEY There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a mas...
RUPERT GRAVES Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.
WESAM FAWZI You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right t...
C.J. REDWINE You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
RUTA SEPETYS You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.
VIKRANT PARSAI The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you'...
JON KRAKAUER Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fel...
ANDREW GARFIELD Doing a thing wrong for a long period of time gives it the superficial appearance of being right.
UNKNOWN To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Freedom is doing what you know is right without fear.
UNKNOWN The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.
RENE SULLY-PRUDHOMME Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is an...
AMBER FREY When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. Yo...
RAMEZ NAAM Telling the right thing is not enough; it has to be told effectively!
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JACOB KEESECKER Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
JIM STOVALL Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
SPENCER JOHNSON And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
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