{"quotes":[{"text":"As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["charity","doing-the-right-thing","judging","judging-others","kindness","love","loving-others"],"id":2416,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"Question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["daring","doing-the-right-thing","facing-problems","inspirational","lessons-of-life","living-well","mediocrity","motivational","purposefulness","refusing-to-give-up","relivance-of-our-existence","resilience","the-status-quo","wisdom","wit"],"id":9884,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of 'me' centered individuals.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","authenticity","be-an-example","caring","children","choices","choose-the-right","communication","compassion","courage","decisions","directioners","doing-the-right-thing","fear","gideon","honesty","in-actions","integrity","loving-one-another","morals","not-caring","one-direction","parenting","selfish","selfless","silence","standing-up-for-others","strength","teaching","teaching-your-son","teens","truth"],"id":36817,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["action","action","actions","actions-over-words","actions-speak-louder-than-words","courage","courage","doing-the-right-thing","empty-gesture","empty-gestures","empty-words","inner-strength","inspirational","inspirational","say-what-you-mean","words"],"id":86630,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.","author":"Shashi","tags":["doing-the-right-thing","life","songs-of-the-mist"],"id":133514,"author_id":"Shashi"},{"text":"Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["acknowlege","decieve","doing-the-right-thing","facing-reality-hide","fake","fool","honesty","honor","hurting-yourself","lie","oblige","playing-stupid","pretend","trick","true-to-yourself","willing"],"id":238923,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christian","doing-the-right-thing","gadfly","good","good-advice","good-and-evil","good-example","goodness","morality","morals","right","right-and-wrong","right-thing","righteous","thoughts-on-life","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational"],"id":254213,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","community-service","doing","doing-the-right-thing","giving","giving-advice","helping-others","humanity","inspiration","love","sowing-deed","volunteering","work-ethics","work-hard","working","working-together"],"id":261486,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.","author":"C.J. Redwine","tags":["battle","doing-the-right-thing","fighting","victory"],"id":278809,"author_id":"C.J.+Redwine"},{"text":"Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was he meant to judge right from wrong when he had never really striven to do right before? The only good thing he had known was his time with Drin, and Drin had died because o.","author":"Emily Veinglory","tags":["doing-the-right-thing","guilt","mourning"],"id":285972,"author_id":"Emily+Veinglory"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}