Wrong Things Quotes - Page 3

• Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

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• Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  Paloma Faith

  Mistake, Acceptance, Imperfection

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Leadership, Believe

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.109, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he wasn’t sure he knew how to say.

  Julia Quinn

  Flirting, Perfect, Gentleman

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• I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

  Joe Satriani

  Done, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

  Guitar World, May 2000.

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• Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

  Aldo Leopold

  Behavior, Ethical, Doing The Right Thing

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• Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Succeed, Failing

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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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• One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Communication, Way, Language

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• A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Character, Self

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from May 29, 2011

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• God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Law, Evil, Doe

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.192, Tor Books

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• Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

  Ford Madox Ford

  People, Want

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.190, Booklassic

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• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Disappointment, Real

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.686, Hachette UK

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• There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Awkward, Sorrow, Faces

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.769, Macmillan

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• Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

  Gordon Bethune

  Want, Failing, Results

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• When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

  Jonathan Raban

  Notebook, Memories, Home

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• There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

  Donita K. Paul

  Stars, Sky, Might

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonKnight: A Novel”, p.44, WaterBrook

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• Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

  Joan Rivers

  Stay Strong, Upset, Enjoy

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• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

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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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