Top 100 Bad Decision Quotes
#1. When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
Lance Armstrong
#2. He was awake enough to wonder if he'd been making bad decisions for his entire life. If he'd been a bad decision, himself, even before he was born.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
James Clavell
#4. I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.
Chris Paine
#5. Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment - a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.
Dan Brown
#6. You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.
Jay Crownover
#7. The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. What do you say, Ave," he asked, searching her eyes. "Feel like making a really bad decision with me?
Mira Lyn Kelly
#9. There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.
Daniel Smith
#10. . Oh, my future brother-in-law called me today to find out if any of my friends from New York might be interested in making a bad decision for the night. Since when did I become a pimp to get Chance laid? I thought he was bringing that lovely flower lady.
Alex Morgan
#11. Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.
Elizabeth Holmes
#12. A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.
Dan Ariely
#13. Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
Janette Rallison
#14. If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?
Joyce Meyer
#15. There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.
Colin Angle
#16. I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision ... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.
Mitch Hedberg
#17. When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.
Mac Miller
#18. John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.
Rachel Maddow
#19. There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Laurence J. Peter
#20. I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.
Jeff Van Gundy
#22. Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?
S.A. Tawks
#23. In a few short months, I had gone from a friendly, optimistic, confident woman to a confused girl with a nervous stammer who second-guessed every thought that went through her head and rationalized every bad decision she made.
Holly Madison
#24. To all the kids who looked up to me, I'm truly sorry for letting you down but I hope it's helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare, there is no excuse for domestic violence and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.
Ray Rice
#25. Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
Matt Salmon
#26. There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.
Jenji Kohan
#27. The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
Erma Bombeck
#28. The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.
David Shenk
#29. As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
Lou Holtz
#30. Even in the midst of a bad decision, I could still live in the moment. And the moment was fine.
Sarina Bowen
#31. My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. Nixon
#32. Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.
Eddie Murphy
#33. I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
Lane Garrison
#34. They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.
Miley Cyrus
#35. I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
Maelle Gavet
#36. CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
Carlos Slim
#37. One bad decision is like building a long line of dominoes and then sneezing and not turning your head
Julia Kent
#38. The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face - especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.
Chris Bohjalian
#39. Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#40. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.
Peter Schutz
#41. A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.
Thomm Quackenbush
#42. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.
Emily Giffin
#43. Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#44. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#45. If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
Will Ferrell
#46. We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.
Noreena Hertz
#47. The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#48. If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.
Geoff Ramsey
#49. Every decision in life; whether good or bad, teaches us a lesson for the next decisions that we will someday meet again.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#50. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.
Drew Karpyshyn
#51. Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
Genie Francis
#52. There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.
Robin Hobb
#53. Good decisions are pearls on your neck.
Bad decisions are thorns in your side.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.
James Sinegal
#55. Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.
Jessica Valenti
#56. The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.
Wynton Marsalis
#57. Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
Dick Vitale
#58. It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one - which is what happens most of the time.
Neel Burton
#59. So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
Sabaa Tahir
#60. You need to make a decision. Either be with her and accept the bad with the good, or get out of her life. Because like it or not, you represent Christ to her, and the last thing she needs is for you to walk away when things get hard.
Tammy L. Gray
#61. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
David Fincher
#63. You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.
Andy Stanley
#64. I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
Michael Madsen
#65. I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
David Coverdale
#66. No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is ... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.
John Macquarrie
#68. If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Mary McCarthy
#69. I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
Rand Paul
#70. Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.
Bruce Hornsby
#71. She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered
Tanya Anne Crosby
#72. I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.
Roger Ailes
#73. Your future can be changed by one decision. One good thing can offset a mountain of bad. But you need to choose.
Jennifer Probst
#74. I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.
Zendaya
#75. One reason people make bad decisions is they don't have a good decision as one of their options.
Dave Ramsey
#76. When it came down to it and the life-or-death decision had to be made, then it was made by you, because you were the witch. And sometimes it wasn't a decision between a good thing or a bad thing, but a decision between to bad things: no right choices, just ... choices.
Terry Pratchett
#77. I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
#78. It wasn't a conscious decision nor was it only one bad choice that led him here. It was anger, pure unadulterated fury
Charity Parkerson
#79. Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.
Karrine Steffans
#80. There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
David Allen
#81. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
James Cook
#82. Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.
Crystal Woods
#83. Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don't turn out as we had hoped. But that's when we we must a decision that we're going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.
Joel Osteen
#84. He had to move forward, because there was nothing to go back to. Sometimes, having no choice made every decision, no matter how bad it seemed, easier.
S.E. Jakes
#85. University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.
Peter Thiel
#86. Ben Says: Life can either be all about LOVE (Good vibrations) or HATE (Bad vibrations) ...
You make the decision!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#87. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.
Tullian Tchividjian
#88. I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.
Paul Walker
#89. Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.
Joyce Meyer
#90. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
#91. You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.
Richard Dawkins
#92. Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#93. Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
Sakyong Mipham
#94. I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.
Rutger Hauer
#95. Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.
Xavier Dolan
#96. All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making.
Joshua Ferris
#97. I think Joe Biden made correct decision for him and his family. Personally,I would rather run agianst Hillary [Clinton] because her record is so bad.
Donald Trump
#98. couldn't help but think, if I only made bad decisions for the rest of my life, at least I had made one really good decision with her.
Max Monroe
#99. Everything beyond getting together felt like a bonus and made everyone feel really relaxed. It's not like people don't scrutinize their own decisions or those of others, of course, but that's both good and bad.
Pontus Winnberg
#100. Don't fuck this up, it will be the worst decision you have made to date- and holy hell, have there been a lot of bad decisions made on your part over the years.
Jay Crownover
