“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
A Short History of England (1917)
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
Snowden's first U.S. television interview, to NBC's Brian Williams; Snowden: "Sometimes To Do The Right Thing You Have to Break a Law", Gawker (29 May 2014) http://gawker.com/snowden-sometimes-to-do-the-right-thing-you-have-to-b-1583145785
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter F. Drucker book The Essential Drucker
Misattributed
Variant: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Source: The Essential Drucker
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American leadership expert
Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) by Stephen R. Covey, p. 101
1980s
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted by Covey, in The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), this has sometimes become misattributed to him.
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Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
John Boehner (1949) Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
"World Weighs In to Condemn Terry Jones' Planned Quran-Burning" http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/world-weighs-in-condemn-terry-jones-planned-quran-burning, "Sunshine Times", 2010-8-09 <br class="br">2010s, 2010
“It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), p. 1; repeated twice more in the book