Poor Choices Quotes:

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Responsibility, Self, People, Destructive Behavior, Self Destructive

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

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

- Max Lucado

topic: Grace, Answers, Mess, Poor Choices

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

- Max Lucado

topic: Years, Choices, Grace, Poor Choices, Years Of Life

The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Past, Punishment, Choices, Poor Choices

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

- Mary Ruwart

source: "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

topic: Children, Parent, Use, Poor Choices, Distasteful

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Children, Father, Heaven, Poor Choices, Father In Heaven

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

topic: Perfect, People, Forgiving, Why Things Happen, When Bad Things Happen

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

- LeCrae

topic: Hurt, Motivation, People, Poor Choices, Mean People

I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

- Tammara Webber

topic: Believe, Mean, Fighting, Poor Choices, Reason For Everything

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

- Jim Trelease

source: Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin

topic: Home, Decision, Voting, Poor Choices

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Children, Choices, Defeat, Poor Choices, Vicious Cycles

That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: live.washingtonpost.com

topic: Moving, Choices, Poor, Poor Choices

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Writing, Choices, Poor, Poor Choices

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Wrong Things, Empty Hands, Poor Choices, One Mistake

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

- Trent Lott

source: "Lott Apologizes for Remark". www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2002.

topic: Apology, Past, Choices, Discarded, Poor Choices

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

- Prince Harry

topic: Sorry, Choices, Costumes, Offence, Poor Choices

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

- John Cleese

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

topic: Creativity, Choices, Design, Poor Choices

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Poor Choices

If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Love You, Choices, Needs, Poor 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

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.

- Jim Trelease

source: Jim Trelease (2001). “The Read-aloud Handbook”, Alloybooks

topic: Children, Reading, Book, Poor Choices, Carrying Guns

Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Jesus, Children, Father, Elevating, Poor Choices

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

- Harry Reid

topic: Regret, Choices, Poor, Poor Choices

Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same.

- Rachel Wade

topic: True Love, Lying, Heart, Poor Choices, Blatant Lies

Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

- Mary Ruwart

source: "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

topic: Children, Drinking, Smoking, Poor Choices, Smoking And Drinking

The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.

- Michelle Alexander

topic: Men, Cities, Justice, Poor Choices, American Cities

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

- Shane Warne

topic: Couple, People, Choices, Jeopardy, Poor Choices