Top 100 Do Wrong Quotes
#1. We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
Paul Prudhomme
#2. I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?
Sonya Hartnett
#3. But without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.
Jane Austen
#4. We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
Judith Viorst
#5. It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
Eleanor Perenyi
#6. By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?
Anna Lyndsey
#7. A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
Andy Stanley
#8. I met a man; broken as can be,
A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,
He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"
The choices you make now; will always reappear,
Live to your heart but do wrong to none,
Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done.
Nikki Rowe
#9. I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?
Bernie Sanders
#10. Investors ... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
Warren Buffett
#11. It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
Grover Cleveland
#12. How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.
Jenny Lloyd
#13. MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
Oscar Wilde
#14. You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever." "You have nothing to fear." "There is nothing you can do wrong.
Eben Alexander
#16. Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
Denise Mina
#18. Help us, O Lord, to remember how often men do wrong through want of thought, rather than from lack of love; and how cunning are the snares that trip our feet.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
Salman Khurshid
#20. It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#21. There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.
Brett Favre
#22. If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
Oswald Chambers
#24. Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)
Donovan L. Graham
#25. We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,
do wrong when they should do right.
Billy Graham
#27. Why then should a man, who has done no wrong, do wrong to himself?
Augustine Of Hippo
#28. The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself upon him already in times of peace, namely, that the state forbids him to do wrong not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.
Sigmund Freud
#29. It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#30. Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
James Joyce
#31. To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato
#32. If I must do wrong to save someone I love, it is right. I will not murder anyone, Ari...but I will kill to save you.
Cat Mann
#33. Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#34. Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.
Anonymous
#35. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
Bernie Siegel
#36. Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#37. Quiet night, that brings
Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,
In which he rises early to do wrong,
And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
Philip Massinger
#38. And you know that voice in your head that tells you not to do wrong? I have one of those, but it doesn't give a shit about right and wrong when someone upsets her.
Suzanne Wright
#39. War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#40. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to
Oscar Wilde
#41. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
Alison Croggon
#42. Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.
Hillary Jordan
#43. Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
Margaret Atwood
#44. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. A wrongdoing doesn't give us the rifht to do wrong.
Ruta Sepetys
#46. The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
Albert Einstein
#47. We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
Phyllis Bottome
#48. Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
Tom DeMarco
#49. In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
Aristotle.
#50. My mom called me up and said you almost had that one, moms are the greatest, you can't do wrong by your Mom. She blames it on everybody else but me.
Joel Dreessen
#52. Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."
David Fincher
#53. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.
Andrew Dice Clay
#54. It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
Socrates
#55. The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
Jack Cade
#56. If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it.
Camron Wright
#57. Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
William Shakespeare
#58. We criticise corruption in others, but are blind to our own dishonesty. We hate others who do wrong and commit crimes, blithely ignoring our own misdeeds, big and small. We vehemently blame Raavan for all our ills, refusing to acknowledge that we created the mess we find ourselves in.
Amish Tripathi
#60. Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you're it.
Carolyn Hax
#62. Normal people tend to do wrong, feel guilty, take responsibility, and atone. But dysfunctional people, tend to do wrong, justify what they did, blame others, and disrespect the victim.
Robert E. Baines Jr.
#63. In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.
John Boyega
#64. Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.
Travis Tritt
#65. It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
George MacDonald
#66. So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.
Kahlil Gibran
#67. You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.
Johnny Hunt
#69. It's not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.
M.R. Carey
#70. The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn't make them less good. But it also doesn't make the wrong less wrong.
Ovadya Ben Malka
#71. You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.
Eben Alexander
#72. I HAD learned early in my career that one can do wrong against one's will, and before long I also learned that one can do wrong without ever discovering what one has done or why it was wrong. There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that
George Orwell
#73. I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Cato The Elder
#74. My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: Bush, what did you do wrong?
George W. Bush
#75. The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
A.P. Herbert
#76. Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,
very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
Julius Charles Hare
#77. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley
#78. You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
L. Frank Baum
#79. Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.
Richard Paul Evans
#80. A wrongdoing doesn't give you the right to do wrong. You know that.
Ruta Sepetys
#81. If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.
Plato
#82. An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.
Ezra Taft Benson
#83. It may be that in the belief of the possibility of redemption, people willingly do wrong. Redemption waits, like a side door, there in whatever court of judgement we eventually find ourselves. Not even the payment of a fine is demanded, simply the empty negotiation that absolves responsibility.
Steven Erikson
#84. Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.
M.F. Moonzajer
#85. Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus
#86. I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
Orson Scott Card
#87. Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.
Artur Phleps
#88. My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"
Winona Ryder
#90. We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.
G.K. Chesterton
#91. You don't make peace only with God. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
Jodi Picoult
#92. Don't do anything wrong, but more important is don't allow anyone else to do wrong through you.
Vinod Rai
#93. Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
Mary Balogh
#94. Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.
Billy Graham
#95. Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.
Billy Graham
#96. It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's right and what's wrong ... that's the moment where we do wrong which we realize long later ...
Debolina Bhawal
#97. What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Mark Twain
#98. I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglass
#99. I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
#100. Character is less about what we do wrong
And
All about what we make right ...
Navonne Johns
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