Top 100 Quotes About Bad Decisions
#1. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,
Kristin Neff
#2. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.
Marie Brennan
#4. This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.
Steve Almond
#5. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend
Ed Miliband
#6. There's something up ahead,' I said. 'Something really bad.' 'So of course we're heading straight for it,' said Penny. 'At some point, we're going to have to sit down and have a serious talk about making better lifestyle decisions.
Simon R. Green
#7. 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
#8. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
Ann Packer
#9. If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.
Geoff Ramsey
#10. Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean
#11. You aren't allowed to decide because you are really bad at making decisions.
Allie Brosh
#12. 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
#13. Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
Wesley Morris
#14. It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.
Madeline Zima
#15. Good decisions are pearls on your neck.
Bad decisions are thorns in your side.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.
Sanhita Baruah
#17. If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. The reality is that reason is just one of the drivers of our decisions, and often the smallest one. Recently
Scott Adams
#18. 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
#19. There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
Jacque Fresco
#20. 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
#21. Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
Dick Vitale
#22. I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
Dan Gilroy
#23. People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
Sharon Salzberg
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.
Craig Finn
#27. BUT ENOUGH SPIRITUALITY. BACK TO TITS AND BAD DECISIONS.
Cory O'Brien
#28. You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience - but experience often came from bad decisions.
Tom Clancy
#29. Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.
Tim Ferriss
#30. I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.
Emery Lord
#31. Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.
Thomas Sowell
#32. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
David Fincher
#33. I should move away from his touch. But he's a constant storm in my life, clouding my head, ensuring I make bad decisions. He doesn't do it on purpose, he knows we're not good for each other, but there's something about us that makes us fight back harder, thinking we can overcome it.
Brittany Butler
#34. I have made some bad decisions ... and done some things I regret in my life ... but without a doubt ... what I regret the most ... is divorcing you. If you tell me there is hope, that one day you'll be Mrs. Rawlings again, I will wait.
Aleatha Romig
#35. Pain makes us make bad decisions. Fear or pain is almost as big of a motivator.
House
#36. You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.
Andy Stanley
#37. Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.
Solita
#38. Whatever decisions we make in life always have their respective consequences - good, better, best, or bad, worse, worst.
Kcat Yarza
#39. He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
Orson Scott Card
#40. 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
#41. Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature.
Mi
#42. Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.
Gene Simmons
#43. What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can't even imagine at this point?
Andy Andrews
#44. Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change them.
Karyn Bosnak
#45. I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.
Karrine Steffans
#46. 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
#47. You will make mistakes. You will make decisions, and sometimes you will regret those choices. Sometimes there won't be a right choice, just the best of several bad options. I don't need to tell you that you can do this-you know you can.
Sarah J. Maas
#48. 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
#49. One reason people make bad decisions is they don't have a good decision as one of their options.
Dave Ramsey
#50. We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum
#51. 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
#52. Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
Gerry Schwartz
#53. It was time to stand up for herself and move forward, not cower in submission as other people made bad decisions for her.
Angie Stanton
#54. Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.
Karrine Steffans
#55. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
James Cook
#57. 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
#58. There's no such thing as 'epic love'. But there is such a thing as 'epically bad decisions based on something believed to be love, but is most likely lust.
Brodi Ashton
#59. The thing about bad decisions is that they don't feel like bad decisions when you're making them. They feel like the obvious choice, the of-course-that-makes-sense move. They feel, somehow, inevitable.
Jennifer Weiner
#60. It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
Robert Half
#61. I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.
Tom Sturridge
#62. Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.
Stephen King
#64. 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
#65. I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.
Paul Walker
#66. Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.
Joyce Meyer
#67. Everyone is flawed, and Christians have bad days just like anyone else and make bad decisions just like anyone else. It's just that Christians have a loving Heavenly Father who is ready to help them; all they have to do is turn to Him and ask,
Kathleen Wiseman
#69. There should be a Web site that records all the risks a person has taken, all the famous people they've met, all their gnarly trips and bad decisions. Like a Web site that ranks who's lived the most." "Isn't that called Facebook?
Christopher Bollen
#70. I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.
Derrick Rose
#71. Bad decisions make good stories.
--from an Internet list.
Ellis Vidler
#72. Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
Todd Phillips
#73. The purpose of a free press, in which I believe believe it or not, is so that people can make rational decisions in a democracy. They'd already perverted the process so bad that was hard, but the point is valid.
John Ringo
#74. My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#75. Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
Miranda July
#76. Get used to planning ahead of time some if not all of your meals in the initial weeks of following my eating plan. This will help you have the right foods on hand when you get hungry. Hunger and tempting foods make for bad decisions!
Bob Harper
#77. He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own.
Michael Chabon
#78. I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
Greg Egan
#79. Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.
Paul Arden
#80. My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J.R. Moehringer
#81. I'm only guilty of having good hygiene and making bad decisions.
J.C. Wickhart
#82. Lawyers for abused kids can challenge bad agency decisions because they can always bring a lawsuit. A volunteer cannot.#barahona
Andrew Vachss
#83. By now, I'm sure you can see that most of the things you want are stupid and most of the decisions you make are bad.
Allie Brosh
#84. That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
Scott McCallum
#85. Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.
Farshad Asl
#86. Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works.
Joe Hill
#87. 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
#88. Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.
Sonia Sotomayor
#89. Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly ...
Tony Hsieh
#90. 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
#91. My life is littered with bad decisions.
Will Forte
#92. 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
#93. With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?
Anthony Liccione
#94. When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.
Antonio R. Damasio
#95. I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions.
Emma Newman
#96. A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
To date, I had made three.
Melika Dannese Lux
#97. It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Paz De La Huerta
#98. For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased)
Abraham Hicks
#99. When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.
Dan Harris
#100. Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.
Alicia T. Bowens
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