Wrongdoing Quotes

• For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

  Bell Hooks

  Forgiveness, Believe, Compassion

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• Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Motivational, Wise Words, Staying

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Firsts, Steps, Action

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

  Rumi

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

  Epicurus

  Impossible, Difficult, Have Confidence

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Evil, Feels

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 06, 2015

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  It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Race, Giving

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• When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

  Edward Brooke

  Cancer, Government, People

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  Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

  Doc Holliday

  Cowboy, Conflict, Herds

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• whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

  Johanna Spyri

  Thinking, Done, Deeds

  Johanna Spyri (1927). “Heidi”

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• Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

  Lee Strobel

  Admitting, Asking, Process

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

  Mo Willems

  Self, Leaving, Stories

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• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

  J. C. Watts

  Integrity, Character, Thinking

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• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Criticism, Path, Peers

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• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Mean, Weight

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• The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

  Aeschylus

  Evil, Sin, Young

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Thinking, Being Thankful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 08, 2013

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• The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Becoming, Action, Sin

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• For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

  Publilius Syrus

  Causes, Virtuous, Good Causes

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 207,

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Opportunity, Calling

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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