Quotes About Foolish Decisions

#1. I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.

Mary Jo Putney

#2. Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

Leon Panetta

#4. If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Daymond John

#5. People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Andy Stanley

#6. He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.

Dave Eggers

#7. More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?

Barbara Boxer

#9. The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

Andy Stanley

#11. If only sorrow could bring hope, I'd learn to live again

Britany Lopez

#12. My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#14. When I meet with world leaders, what's striking - whether it's in Europe or here in Asia ... - Barack Obama, mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011

Barack Obama

#15. It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

George Horne

#16. Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had thought that mothers never had to sleep.

Robert A. Caro

#17. No one played devil's advocate, a figure that every group needs to avoid foolish or even disastrous decisions like this. It was reminiscent of President John Kennedy's "disastrous" decision to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.11

Philip G. Zimbardo

#18. Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 'easy' over that which was 'right'. And while it's 'right' to admit this to myself, it isn't 'easy.' So, which choice am I going to make this time?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

ElRay L. Christiansen

#20. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#21. I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.

Dennis E. Adonis

#23. Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. I thinking? Internet-stalking was for the old Alayna Withers. I would not stoop to that level. Hudson wanted me with him. Always. What other proof did I

Laurelin Paige

#25. He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.

Glen David Gold