Bad Choices Quotes

• Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

  Rick Warren

  Choices, Advice, Choose Wisely

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 16, 2013

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Choices, Made, Results

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• I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

  David Cottrell

  People, Choices, Professional Success

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• It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

  Justin Cronin

  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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• No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

  Sara Bareilles

  People, Choices, Shade

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

  Zig Ziglar

  Choices, Helping, Results

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2014

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• One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Choices, Protection, Mask

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• Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mistake, Heart, Choices

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• I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Choices, Imperfect

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

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• But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

  Kim Harrison

  Choices, Wake Up, Littles

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• Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

  Justin Timberlake

  Awards, Choices, Denim

  "Playboy Interview: Justin Timberlake". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Choices, Choices You Make, Seems

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• However, when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldn’t say that’s a bad choice. The endorphins released during infatuation are similar to heroin. OxyContin, “the cuddling hormone,” most often found in new mothers and newlyweds, is like ecstasy; every touch tingles. I think I read that somewhere. Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

  Pete Wentz

  Mother, Thinking, Cuddling

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

  Holly Black

  Hard Times, Funny Things, Ideas

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Choices, Life Is

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.246, Macmillan

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• People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Song, Morning

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• Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Choices, Chance, Ifs

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Heart, People, Choices

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• I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Ignorance, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Blessing, People

  "Pastor Rick Warren". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I think that my experience as a single mom getting into relationships in an impoverished district with men that don't have options resonates with people. I don't get into the deadbeat dad thing. I don't think men innately decide to be irresponsible fathers. I think there's a backstory. They're given really bad choices. It's less deadbeat dads and more unemployed fathers, and some fathers decide to sedate and give up.

  Cheri Honkala

  Mom, Giving Up, Dad

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Live Life, Choices, I Can

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• Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

  Tim Heidecker

  Fashion, Dad, Choices

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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