Bad Choices Quotes:

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Make The Right Choice, Making Good Choices

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

- Rick Warren

source: FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 16, 2013

topic: Choices, Advice, Choose Wisely, Bad Choices

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

- David Cottrell

source: David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.16, Harper Collins

topic: Leadership, Monday, Morning, Professional Success, Bad Choices

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Choices, Made, Results, Bad Choices, Good Choices

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Mistake, Heart, Choices, Bad Choices

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

- Justin Cronin

source: "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

topic: Mistake, Ideas, Long, Bad Choices, Bad Ideas

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

- Sara Bareilles

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: People, Choices, Shade, Bad Choices

The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

- Karen Kingsbury

source: Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Choices, Bad Choices

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2014

topic: Choices, Helping, Results, Bad Choices

One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Choices, Protection, Mask, Bad Choices

I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

- George Packer

source: "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Choices, Imperfect, Bad Choices, Uninspiring

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

- Eleanor Mondale

topic: Men, Choices, Taste, Bad Choices

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

- Karen White

topic: Mistake, People, Choices, Everybody Makes Mistakes, Bad Choices

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

- Barack Obama

source: "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

topic: Children, Mean, America, Debt Ceiling, National Debt

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

topic: Mean, Choices, Wish, Bad Choices

For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Art, People, Decision, Bad Choices

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

- Samuel Richardson

topic: Husband, Choices, Rakes, Bad Choices, Inconsiderate

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

- Rick Santorum

topic: Girl, People, Choices, Bad Choices

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

- Amy Grant

topic: Choices, Not Good Enough, Arena, Bad Choices

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

- Jessica Capshaw

source: "Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Choices, Turns, Bad Choices

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

- Ray LaMontagne

source: "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: Choices, Finding Yourself, Spirals, Downward Spiral, Bad Choices

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Love, Relationship, Mistake, Bad Choices

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

- Minnie Driver

source: "Warwick Davis: My family values". Interview With Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Past, Choices, Done, Bad Choices

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

- Selma Blair

topic: Men, Choices, Luck, Little Faith, Bad Choices

Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change the structural realities that make people make bad choices beyond their ignorance or what have you.

- Marc Lamont Hill

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Ignorance, Reality, People, Bad Choices, Ignorant People

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

- Michael K. Williams

topic: Choices, Brushes, Bad Choices

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

- Common

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Mistake, Choices, Firsts, Bad Choices, Put God First

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

- Jennifer Lee

source: Source: www.denofgeek.com

topic: Loneliness, People, Choices, Bad Choices

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

- Evan Williams

topic: Choices Made, Focus, Lessons, Bad Choices, Fewer

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

- Sara Bareilles

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Thinking, Giving, Choices, Brokenness, Big Sister

It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Running, Hurt, Choices, Bad Choices

Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise.

- Jonah Hill

source: "Jonah Hill Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 2, 2010.

topic: Wise, Writing, Thinking, Bad Choices

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

- Woody Allen

topic: Real, Mistake, Home, Bad Choices

This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

- Chris Christie

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Country, Worry, Choices, Bad Choices

Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.

- Jon Fitch

topic: Mma, Choices, Results, Bad Choices

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

- Miuccia Prada

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Beautiful, Stress, Mistake, Bad Choices

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Art, Choices, Might, Bad Choices

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Choices, Shapes, Bad Choices

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

source: "Are Mothers Getting A Bad Deal?". "Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg", www.pbs.org. June 28, 2001.

topic: Home, Thinking, Choices, Bad Choices

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

- Crystal Chappell

topic: Mistake, Character, Perfect, Bad Choices, Nobody's Perfect

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Song, Choices, Joy, Bad Choices

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Art, Mistake, Choices, Bad Choices

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Growing Up, Mistake, Choices, Poor Choices, Bad Choices

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Jobs, Children, Night, Moral Life, Insignificance

Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

- Emma Watson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Independent, Years, Appreciate, Bad Choices, Picky

Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Blessed, Choices, Atonement, Bad Choices

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Fashion, Choices, Jewelry, Bad Choices

In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

- Heather O'Neill

source: Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.243, Hachette UK

topic: Bad Choices

I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.

- Tod Goldberg

topic: Jobs, Character, Thinking, Bad Choices