Top 65 Never Confuse Quotes
#2. Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
John Of Kronstadt
#3. Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
#4. Never confuse faith, or belief - of any kind - with something even remotely intellectual.
John Irving
#9. We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.
John Ashcroft
#10. The best entrepreneurs never confuse motion with results.
Martin Zwilling
#11. Some time ago," he said, "
how long it seems!
I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer."
"Any but you, apparently."
-Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Chameleon
#13. The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom ... Be wise.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#15. I never confuse the cost of something with its value
Robin Hobb
#17. Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.
Orrin Woodward
#18. This man will be hazardous for my heart if I allow it. He'll use me up if I let him. I know this without a doubt and remind myself of a lesson well learned not so long ago. Never confuse sex for love.
Georgia Cates
#19. Never confuse activity with productivity.
Rick Warren
#21. Never confuse activity with accomplishment.
John Wooden
#22. Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.
Mardy Grothe
#23. Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.
Ian Paisley
#25. Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
Marty Rubin
#27. American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should have curves, not angles ... One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful ... Eat. Be happy to have curves. A presence.
Beth Fantaskey
#28. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
Rick Warren
#29. Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.
Terry Wogan
#30. Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.
Wayne Dyer
#32. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
Saint Frances De Sales
#34. I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#36. Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.
Mardy Grothe
#37. Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.
Steve Maraboli
#38. Never confuse determination with arrogance. Arrogance will look down on you, determination will run over you.
Grant McLachlan
#39. One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful
Beth Fantaskey
#40. Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
Joan D. Chittister
#41. Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.
Ricky Gervais
#43. Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
#44. I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong
George MacDonald Fraser
#45. Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.
Robert A. Heinlein
#46. People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that can be copied. But social behavior is nerve and bone, not clothes, and is never just a copy, however derivative it may look.
Nick Joaquin
#47. Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.
Will Schwalbe
#48. Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
Marian Wright Edelman
#49. Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.
Oscar De La Renta
#50. The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn't replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.
Josh Kaufman
#51. It has never been difficult to create few characters and to kill them and to confuse the reader or the readers, but this isn't my style of working.
Deyth Banger
#52. In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#53. It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please" ... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist ... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.
Jacques Maritain
#54. I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
Christian Bale
#55. I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.
Shawn Michael Severud
#56. I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.
Joss Whedon
#57. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
Wiz Khalifa
#58. Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach
#59. Let us not confuse love with passion. Love, True Love is eternal. Passion just rides as far as the thought of love will take him. Never blame love for passions faults.
Tonny K. Brown
#60. Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#61. I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
Mark Twain
#62. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments ...
Thomas Paine
#64. The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech ... For true poetry is never speech but always a song.
Herbert Read
#65. The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
Helen McCloy
