Doing The Right Thing Quotes - Page 3

• Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"

  Stephen Covey

  Wonder, Right Thing

  13 Copy quote

• What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Confusion, Done

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Guessing, May, Able

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Sacrifice, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

  Napoleon Hill

  Initiative, Right Thing

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.192, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

  Katherine Center

  Who You Are, Right Thing

  4 Copy quote

• There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, People, Evil

  14 Copy quote

• I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.

  Lynn Forester de Rothschild

  Hard Work, Passion, Knowing

  6 Copy quote

• It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

  James Goodnight

  Leadership, People, Turns

  6 Copy quote

• I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Fathers Day, Brother, Uncles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Temptation, Portfolios, Distraction

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

  6 Copy quote

• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

  J. C. Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

  39 Copy quote

• There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

  Will Smith

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  44 Copy quote

• One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

  Heber J. Grant

  Believe, Sacrifice, Giving

  8 Copy quote

• Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Business, Responsibility, Singleness Of Purpose

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mean, Helping, Intellect

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.27, e-artnow

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  Ramez Naam

  Organization, Numbers, People

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

  Tony Dungy

  Integrity, May, Disadvantages

  FaceBook post by Tony Dungy from Jan 05, 2016

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

  18 Copy quote

• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Goodbye, Mean, Fighting

  15 Copy quote

• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Military, Political, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.27, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

  4 Copy quote

  Show source