Quotes On Bad Choices

#1. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

Michael Ignatieff

#2. The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Crystal Chappell

#3. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard.

Joss Whedon

#5. You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. 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

#7. Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Heinrich Heine

#8. Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

Miuccia Prada

#9. Memory is a great servant, but really bad master. When memory plays its role as a master, it limits our choices. It choices doors for us. We react to every single thing in our life because of our memory.

Ika Natassa

#10. Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

Arthur L. Herman

#11. We don't punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn't heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.

Jo Nesbo

#12. When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

Ron Paul

#13. This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts
would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.

Harold S. Kushner

#14. I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

Sarah Bird

#15. There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

Robin Hobb

#16. Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

R.C. Sproul

#17. Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

Nicholas Kristof

#18. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human.

Sui Ishida

#19. Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Like and dislike, good or bad, God and devil, this and that,
Creates dualities and confuses mind to discriminate and make choices.
In Oneness, they all merge into surrender and acceptance.

Gian Kumar

#21. Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.

Maria V. Snyder

#22. Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

Alain De Botton

#23. I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

Vanilla Ice

#24. We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

David Gemmell

#25. It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Rick Warren

#26. People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor.

Zadie Smith

#27. When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Dr. Seuss

#28. If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

L.M. Fields

#29. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Alexandra Bracken

#30. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Barack Obama

#31. I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

Tammara Webber

#32. I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been waiting alone for me. We had lived, for two years. Made choices and mistakes, had good days and bad days.

Megan Miranda

#33. I pull out a zippered CD case, but unfortunately, it's slim pickens inside, and I say this not only because the choices are bad, which they are, but because there actually is a Slim Pickens CD inside.

Melissa DeCarlo

#34. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#35. Life is all about choices, I decide - good ones, bad ones, selfish ones - Olivia

Tarryn Fisher

#36. She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don't, however, think she deserves better than me. I think she would be perfect for me and I would be perfect for her, but all the bad choices I've made in my life are what she doesn't deserve to be a part of.

Colleen Hoover

#37. And that made him wonder if a person who is forced into bad situations over and over again when they're too weak or helpless to do anything about it will eventually make bad choices of their own simply because they've become habituated to them.

Jonathan Maberry

#38. I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices.

David Cottrell

#39. I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

Eleanor Mondale

#40. Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

Ezra Taft Benson

#41. People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad.

Henry Cloud

#42. Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.

James MacDonald

#43. 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

#44. It wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.

Naomi Klein

#45. Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

Rick Warren

#46. The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter.

Galina Nelson

#47. 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

#48. When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

Thom Browne

#49. Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Holly Black

#50. And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever. Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

Neil Pasricha

#51. The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#52. Sometimes bad choices bring us to the right people, Emily.

Gail McHugh

#53. In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

Ryan Lilly

#54. When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Jeanne DuPrau

#55. It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

James Gleick

#56. IT is only when we are no longer in control
because of sickness, death, or our own bad choices
that we no longer cling. The path to salvation is the path of humiliation.

Jonathan Martin

#57. In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

Ally Condie

#58. People usually make bad choices when they are either angry, scared or stressed. But staying positive in your worst of times will help bring out your very best.

Timothy Pina

#59. Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

David Bach

#60. Your future can be changed by one decision. One good thing can offset a mountain of bad. But you need to choose.

Jennifer Probst

#61. 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

#62. When it came down to it and the life-or-death decision had to be made, then it was made by you, because you were the witch. And sometimes it wasn't a decision between a good thing or a bad thing, but a decision between to bad things: no right choices, just ... choices.

Terry Pratchett

#63. If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

#64. The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you've done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit. The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.

Pleasefindthis

#65. He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said.
My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.

Aaron Starmer

#66. I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

Conn Iggulden

#67. Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

David Cottrell

#68. Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Zig Ziglar

#69. Hell is our own memories, our bad choices.

Ann Aguirre

#70. We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#71. Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

Joel Edgerton

#72. If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.

Charles Martin

#73. Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make.
And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption.

Dean Koontz

#74. It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#75. I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Christopher Meloni

#76. No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

Sara Bareilles

#77. We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

Andre Dubus

#78. There were always choices. I'd made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#79. The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

Bill Vaughan

#80. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

#81. Don't be surprised by smart people doing bad choices! Dumb spirits seek to reborn with a better brain.

Robin Sacredfire

#82. Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

#83. Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#84. My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

Taryn Manning

#85. The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

Karen Kingsbury

#86. The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices.

Lauren Oliver

#87. The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

Anne Cassidy

#88. There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

Karen White

#89. I say bad things happen. Sometimes it's because of the choices we make, and sometimes it's because of the choices other people make . . . and sometimes it just happens.

Patrick W. Carr

#90. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

Francine Rivers

#91. Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Deb Caletti

#92. Because I want us to be friends again. I made some really bad choices, and I'm sorry. You're leaving for Florida and if we don't fix this now, it won't be fixed.

Katie McGarry

#93. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

Marcel Proust

#94. Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices.

Asma Naqi

#95. Not exactly hard, is it?"

"That's what she said," Kate interjected.

Matt shook his head. "And this is where I chose to lay my affections," he muttered, like it was just the latest in a series of bad life choices he'd made.

Lauren James

#96. She tasted like whiskey and bad choices,

Elizabeth Kelly

#97. Life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.

Lauren Oliver

#98. Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one and sanity in knowing that everyone healed. If everyone has scars, there are two choices. Bleed to death slowly or stitch yourself together.

Nicki Salcedo

#99. I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#100. Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Charles Bukowski