Wrong Choices Quotes

• I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

  Rose McGowan

  Choices, Actors

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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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• Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

  Kristin Hannah

  Choices, Sometimes, Made

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “Fly Away”, p.362, Pan Macmillan

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• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Choices, Decision, Peacefulness

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• Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

  Mira Grant

  Choices, Grace, May

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• Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Choices, Talent

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• Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

  Mary Balogh

  Journey, Next Week, Choices

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press

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• You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Choices, Ego

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• I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivational, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

  Lawrence Block

  Evil, Giving, Choices

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

  John Holdren

  Opportunity, Destiny, Choices

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• In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Lonely, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". a16z.com. August 07, 2011.

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Choices

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

  Atom Egoyan

  Grief, People, Choices

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2014.

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• Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it

  Pip Karmel

  Choices, Way, Firsts

  Pip Karmel (2000). “Me Myself I: A Novel”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

  Tony Blair

  Space, Choices, Quality

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• You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

  Joel Osteen

  Choices, Focus, Victory

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• I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

  Michelle Williams

  People, Choices, Lists

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• I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

  Justin Welby

  Believe, Choices, Easier

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• I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Home

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

  Colleen Hoover

  Choices, Feels

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Should Have, Choices

  Interview on a panel at Odyssey Con 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin, www.westeros.org. April 6, 2008.

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• Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Mistake, Fall

  Dick Cheney's speech at a Town Hall Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 7, 2004.

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