Wrong Things Quotes

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  Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

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• Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

  Tony Blair

  Inspiring, Leadership, Winning

  Tony Blair during House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. November 9, 2005.

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• Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

  Jim DeMint

  Order, Make Sense, Right Thing

  "Erin Burnett OutFront", edition.cnn.com. January 12, 2012.

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

  George MacDonald

  People

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Time, Stupid, Strategy

  "Management". Book by Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz, Random House, Business Division, p. 100, 1987.

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• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Irony, Moments, Right Moment

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• I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

  Jane McGonigal

  Accomplish, I Realized

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• Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

  James Carville

  Done, Sometimes, Reason

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• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Love Is, Escaping

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

  Julia Quinn

  Smart, Heart, Personality

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jun 14, 2013

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• Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

  Charles A. Murray

  Educational, Intellectual, Littles

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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• Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Strong, Choices, Followers

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• Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Reason, Bigs

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.

  Alyson Noel

  Lying, Heart, Ego

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• The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Verge

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• Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

  Anna Godbersen

  Choices, Window, Difficult

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