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

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

Dorothy Nevill (1826–1913) British gardener

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

“There is no right way to do a wrong thing.”

Гарольд Кушнер (1935)

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

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

Temple Halliday

“The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.”

Richard Russo Empire Falls

“We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

“When things go wrong and will not come right”

Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman