52 Movie Quotes about Doing The Right Thing (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange

22 It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Clint Eastwood as Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact (1983)

23 You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder.

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

24 I don't think that would be very fair to him. I'll tell him the truth. I always believe in being truthful with people.

John Payne as Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

25 I know I'm not the best communicator, but whatever happens to you, be honest, tell the truth even if they do look at you funny. They will.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

26 One thing that's so nice about you. I can always count on you. -To do what? -The right thing.

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin in The Tingler (1959)

27 The devil is always at work... -People are responsible for their own actions. The devil had little if anything to do with it.

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify; Ossie Davis as The Good Reverend Doctor Purify in Jungle Fever

28 Right and wrong? But. But how will I know? -How will he know? -Your conscience will tell you.

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio; Evelyn Venable as The Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1939)

29 But even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, sometimes the wrong things may be right at the wrong time or vice versa. Understand?

Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1939)

30 Don't hurt him. He's my conscience. He tells me what's right and wrong.

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1939)