Wrong Reasons Quotes

• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

  Anne Bancroft

  Matter, Wrong Person, Reason

  The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely.

  Simon Nessman

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Best Relationship

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• You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

  Norton Juster

  Mistake, Phantom Tollbooth, Children Book

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

  Francine Rivers

  Giving, People, Credit

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

  Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

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• A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

  Steve Winwood

  Change, Music, Thinking

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

  John Irving

  Trophies, Reason, Used

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Success, Popular Song, Reason

  "That Summer in Paris". Book by Morley Callaghan, 1963.

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• The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Ice Cream, Self

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• Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Decision, Reason, Made

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• I was born with the wrong sign
  In the wrong house
  With the wrong ascendancy
  I took the wrong road
  That led to
  The wrong tendencies
  I was in the wrong place
  At the wrong time
  For the wrong reason
  And the wrong rhyme
  On the wrong day
  Of the wrong week
  Used the wrong method
  With the wrong technique
  Wrong
  Wrong.

  Martin Gore

  House, Technique, Week

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• I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

  Willie Aames

  Age, Lost Everything, Difficult Times

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• My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

  Rita Rudner

  Cousin, Real, Men

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• Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

  Tom Hanks

  Sometimes, Reason, Humans

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• Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

  Michael Cera

  Choices, Being Real, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Generations, Reason, Prophet

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• It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

  James Hunter

  Real, People, Appreciate

  "Goodbye Sam Cooke, Hello James Hunter". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 10, 2016.

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Progress, Reason, Stage

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.29, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  Saul

  People, Reason, Next Generation

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• You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Work, Believe

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with a belligerent and cocky attitude. When I ask why they want to study my art, their response has indicated to me that their goal is to learn to fight, which is the antithesis of the philosophy I hope to instill: I want them to know how to defend themselves if necessary, but to avoid fighting whenever possible because they will have nothing to prove by fighting.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Attitude, Philosophy

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• Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, Talking, Secret

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• A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

  Glenn Tipton

  Band, Bucks, Reason

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