Wrong Reasons Quotes - Page 5

• You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.

  Russell Peters

  Years, Reason, Broke

  4 Copy quote

• Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

  Scott McClellan

  Law, Focus, Drug

  4 Copy quote

• The reason people burn out is not because people are going hard [after God]; it's because they are working and perusing with the wrong spirit-trying to do it in the eyes of men with the wrong reasons; trying to get into a room you are already in.

  Mike Bickle

  Eye, Men, People

  12 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

  Phil Libin

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, World

  "The Only Good Reason to Launch a Company" by Phil Libin, www.inc.com. January 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People go into things for the wrong reasons.

  Robert Greene

  People, Reason

  Source: dilanka.cc

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a bigger role that Rob [Lowe] was already set to play, so the role they wanted me to audition for was Alec. [Director] Joel Schumacher... this is back in the days when you could trick me with things like this. He goes, "Don't you think you can play it?" And I go, "Okaaaaay." So then I did it for all the wrong reasons but I don't think I would fall for that again. Who knows. I might.

  Judd Nelson

  Fall, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

  Bill Murray

  Reason, Critics

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here." And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. If you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Past, Ideas, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote