Top 100 Quotes About Wrong Reasons
#1. Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
James Mansfield
#3. Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Walter Darby Bannard
#4. You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)
Joyce Meyer
#5. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.
Marya Hornbacher
#6. But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Jonathan Coe
#7. If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#8. I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
Deanna Raybourn
#9. Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
George Saintsbury
#10. There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.
David Kay
#11. I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
Brody Jenner
#12. Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#13. Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
Emma Tennant
#14. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?
Robert Rankin
#15. How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
Jethro Tull
#16. There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
Gannicus
#17. In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.
Dominic Cooper
#18. People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?'
Ryan Sheckler
#19. There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones. I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different Hamlets, and every one has given me something different.
Joel Kinnaman
#20. A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
Nicholas Hoult
#21. I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.
Josie Bissett
#22. Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
Carrie Fisher
#23. Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
Deb Caletti
#24. Cinderella Rule #16
Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.
Donna Kauffman
#25. A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.
Glenn Tipton
#26. Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline; you shall only live to remember the last lesson.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. I didn't think you remembered my name."Lucas narrowed his eyes back as a tiny smile flitted across his face. He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and placed his mouth close to my ear. "Of course i did, love. I always remember the names i moan out in pleasure.
J.L. Paul
#28. How many hearts would be invaded for the wrong reasons, if each time you said "I love you", you meant it?
Pleasefindthis
#29. Trust me when I say I'd rather break up for the right reasons than get married for the wrong ones. With him, or anyone else. I'm either first in line, or I walk.
C.D. Reiss
#30. And like I've said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#31. I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.
Rush Limbaugh
#32. It can't be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you're around them. That's probably one of the best reasons you could have.
Courtney Summers
#33. There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.
Marion Ross
#34. His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.
Justine Dell
#35. I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.
Francine Rivers
#36. Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.
Scott McClellan
#37. 'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
Dee Dee Myers
#38. Troy Brennan was the kind of guy to show up in the local news for all the wrong reasons. He was trouble - hot trouble, flash-fire-on-the-stove hot trouble - and
L.J. Shen
#39. My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
Elena Ferrante
#40. Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.
Michael Cera
#41. Harper was suddenly overwhelmed with the need to make an impression. She didn't want to be forgotten, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.
Elizabeth Craft
#42. Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.
Sherwood Smith
#43. Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Jeannette Walls
#44. You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster
#45. So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
Lindsay Lohan
#46. The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.
Barney Norris
#47. Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons.
Patience Johnson
#48. In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.
John C. Maxwell
#49. Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
Sandra Bullock
#50. You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons ... This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
Arthur Koestler
#51. He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#52. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. One
C.S. Lewis
#53. Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham
#54. I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.
Nenia Campbell
#55. 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
#56. There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren't even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn't changed. It had always been survival of the fittest.
Claire Merle
#57. In the stock market ... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
John Allen Paulos
#58. It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost
#59. There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
Guillermo Del Toro
#60. Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
Alan Cohen
#61. A great woe underpinning the sorrows of the world today is this: so many people think they are far better than others and they are too righteous than others, and they know far better than others, and such thoughts give them reasons for an otherwise action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#62. History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.
(Graukar)
Aleksandr Voinov
#63. Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
Melina Marchetta
#64. A man has only three reasons for being anywhere: to right a wrong, to earn a coin, or because he got lost." "I
Will Panzo
#65. I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
Jaclyn Smith
#66. Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
Anthony Holden
#67. 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
#68. A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons - money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.
Robert Greene
#69. Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
Gary Weiss
#70. Beckett's probably the hardest man there is to love," Blake said. "He does life wrong for all the right reasons.
Debra Anastasia
#71. One of the reasons most people are not good at solving problems and manifesting or attracting into their life what they want is because their thoughts are always on what's wrong and on what's missing and on the problem.
Wayne Dyer
#72. All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.
George Carlin
#73. You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
Peter Singer
#74. But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.
Karyn Bosnak
#75. I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don't have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.
Khali Raymond
#76. If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.
Michael Meade
#78. People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.
Stephen Jay Gould
#79. I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
Libba Bray
#80. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
Donita K. Paul
#81. Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.
Jonathan Pryce
#82. I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
Lindsay Lohan
#83. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.
Rhys Hughes
#84. You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.
Sienna Miller
#85. What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
Kenneth Fisher
#86. Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference.
Nicola Yoon
#87. My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
John Irving
#88. Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
Carrie Fisher
#89. What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.
Paul Rodriguez
#90. The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.
Graham Taylor
#91. We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#92. There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.
Phil Libin
#93. Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
Kenneth Noland
#94. Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.
Jennifer Lee
#95. If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.
Youth Lagoon
#96. Its a matter of free will. Decisions made at the wrong or right time, for the wrong or right reasons.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.
Erica Jong
#98. I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
Alex Ferguson
#100. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
Shannon L. Alder
