Temple Halliday quote: “The Discipline to do the right thing at the right time with the right mindset begins with the little things”

“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

Variant: I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.

“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

“Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it.

Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.”

Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

“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.
Misattributed

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.”

Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

Source: Opportunity and Self-Transcendence (1977), p. 21

“There’s a right thing to do,” Holden said.
“You don’t have a right thing, friend,” Miller said. “You’ve got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 36 (p. 363)

“The Discipline to do the right thing at the right time with the right mindset begins with the little things”

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