Making Wrong Things Right Quotes

#1. Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.

James E. Faust

#2. It seems there is no such thing as a purely good deed, a completely right action. Even this task, which i took on for the very best of reasons, involves making choices that are not that "good", choices that might even be "wrong".

Salman Rushdie

#3. He progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

Brennan Manning

#4. You need to stop making excuses for your mistakes, as long as you are complaining about what you did wrong you will never get started on doing it right

Carlton Young

#5. ...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#6. Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Amartya Sen

#7. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#8. You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#9. You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Norton Juster

#10. They would learn to evaluate a decision not by its outcomes--whether it turned out to be right or wrong--but by the process that led to it. The job of the decision maker wasn't to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.

Michael Lewis

#11. You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's not impossible.

Siobhan Vivian

#12. Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Jim Rohn

#14. You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Elizabeth Taylor

#15. Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

Shashi Tharoor

#16. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Milton Friedman

#17. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

#18. You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

Richard O'Connor

#19. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

Barack Obama

#20. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?

Donna Lynn Hope

#21. Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.

Dean Koontz

#22. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Clayton Christensen

#24. A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Martha Reeves

#26. It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Pearl Zhu

#27. Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don't second guess yourself.

E'yen A. Gardner

#28. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Fannie Flagg

#29. That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

David Wong

#30. The gospel simply means "the good news of Jesus."
Justice simply means "making what is wrong, right."
Gospel justice is the good news of Jesus that makes what is wrong, right.

Chris Marlow

#31. Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.

Courtney Summers

#32. One problem with making moral compromises is that doing the right thing becomes increasingly difficult: it requires admitting that one's earlier acts were wrong. In effect, to get clean, one must first get dirtier, a step that few proved willing to take.

Dan McMillan

#33. If I heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don't make the wrong thing impossible'. Well ... you learn from making mistakes. It's that simple.

Buck Brannaman

#34. It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

James Freeman Clarke