52 Movie Quotes about Doing The Right Thing (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 4, 2025

Memorable quotes about doing the right thing, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 One good turn deserves another.

Kathryn Beaumont as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

2 When you fight and beat your opponent, you've only won a physical match. But then, if you can show him kindness, well, then, that man may surrender his heart to you.

Quote from Challenge of the Masters

3 I lived most of my life in the wild country, and you set a code of laws to live by. -What laws? -I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

4 Look, when we say we gonna do a job, we do a job!

Burt Reynolds as Bandit in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

5 Understand, I would use this Ring from a desire to do good.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

6 Huh! What are conscience? I'll tell ya! A conscience is that still, small voice that people won't listen to. That's just the trouble with the world today.

Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1939)

7 Don't you know what it says on our masthead, right under the eagle? The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns in The Front Page (1974)

8 You know I don't do contracts. But what you do have is my word, and it's stronger than oak.

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire

9 We must try to understand other people more. -Understand cruelty and weakness? -Even that.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

10 Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.

Peter Weller as Alex Murphy Robocop in RoboCop (1987)