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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• It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

  Shimon Peres

  Controversial, Reason

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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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• 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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• 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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• Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ambition, People, Drug

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, People, Worry

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• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Humanity, Reason

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• In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

  John C. Maxwell

  Want, Reason, Cases

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self Confidence, Expression, People

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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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• ...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

  Deb Caletti

  Fire, Way, Sticks

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Guilt, Trying

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• I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.

  David Berg

  Country, War, Heart

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