Top 100 Things Go Wrong Quotes
#2. I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
Nikki Giovanni
#3. When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
Jim Rogers
#4. Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
Ronald Reagan
#5. Things go wrong occasionally, but when you focus on that, you miss the enormity of what goes right.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#6. There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.
Millicent Ashby
#7. My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.
Robert Parish
#8. He's just ... immature. He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.
Nicholas Sparks
#9. Sometimes things go wrong. You need to accept that. You need to know that you will be okay. You're amazing. You can have an amazing life if you choose to live it.
Trish Marie Dawson
#10. The main effect of turning a partnership into a corporation was to transfer the financial risk to the shareholders. "When things go wrong it's their problem,
Michael Lewis
#11. We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.
Henry Petroski
#12. I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
Theresa May
#13. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
Millicent Ashby
#14. If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.
Dorothy Koomson
#15. Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.
Robert L. Payton
#16. When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
#17. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Kevin Allen
#18. Roses have thorns. That's the price of roses. When you start to forget that, that's when things go wrong.
T. Kingfisher
#19. Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.
DJ Shadow
#20. Motivation is worthless. Motivation is what you have when everything is going right. Determination is Everything. When things go wrong and you start to waver, Determination is what keeps you moving toward your goal.
N.a.
#21. You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.
Richie Norton
#22. I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.
Ben Horowitz
#25. They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.
Liz Halliday
#26. Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song
Billy Rose
#27. When things go wrong, they keep going wrong until there's tears.
Stephen King
#28. Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...
Assegid Habtewold
#29. It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.
Christian Bale
#30. Even if you know what you are doing, things go wrong. Things go wrong because building a multifaceted human organization to compete and win in a dynamic, highly competitive market turns out to be really hard.
Ben Horowitz
#31. In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to
blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been
attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else.
Rick Riordan
#32. It is always the ones who believe that are hurt the worst when things go wrong.
David Levithan
#33. When all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#34. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.
Patrick Vieira
#35. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
Robert Bloch
#36. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.
Atul Gawande
#37. Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.
Juan Pablo Montoya
#39. When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
C.S. Lewis
#40. I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
Dolly Parton
#41. Be your own worst critic.
When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.
Paul Arden
#42. Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.
Steven Sinofsky
#43. It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.
Harry S. Truman
#44. The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#45. If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a very brave and heroic death. Oh and don't Oh, and don't touch the radio
I've got it tuned right where I want it and I don't want you messing that up.
Derek Landy
#46. Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.
Luis Tiant
#47. I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
Michael Symon
#48. When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
Blake Shelton
#49. Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
Jack McDevitt
#51. Enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.
Sherry Turkle
#52. The more you get, the better you become' and therefore over the years you become more experienced and you learn how to deal with it. You know what can go wrong, and you also learn how to react if things go wrong.
Jill Douglas
#53. I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.
Brian Helgeland
#54. Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.
Moby
#55. To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.
David E. Sorensen
#56. Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
Caroline Wozniacki
#57. I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.
Ronnie Apteker
#58. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#59. High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.
Anthony Giddens
#60. FORGIVE FAILURE. The corollary to accountability is forgiveness. Things go wrong all the time in relationships, and the healthiest ones move on from them, leaving behind grudges and blame. This is not to say that failure is accepted; rather, that it is acknowledged and understood.
Charlene Li
#61. Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again
George MacDonald
#62. I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.
Hank Aaron
#63. If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. People change, things go wrong. shit happens, but life goes on
Anonymous
#65. We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#66. I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.
Nick Clegg
#67. Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#68. Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey," Dasai said. "If things go wrong, I do not want you to fight. I want you to live.
Kameron Hurley
#69. We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.
Simon Sinek
#71. 'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.
Olivia Newton-John
#72. Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
Theodore Dalrymple
#75. People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.
Bill Murray
#76. Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.
Tom Stoppard
#77. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
Bill Courtney
#78. How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail ... and out you go.
Sophie Kinsella
#79. When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.
Sara Nelson
#80. What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.
Ronnie Apteker
#81. Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.
Angus Young
#82. Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.
Anna J. Michener
#83. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#84. Blame yourself when things go wrong, and give credit to others when things go right. The process of giving other people credit is what it takes to build a team. Sandberg, one of America's great team builders, knows exactly what it takes to win.
Frank Luntz
#85. Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.
Tori Amos
#86. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
Nick Jonas
#87. Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong.
Jim George
#88. The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Vivek Wadhwa
#89. Every relationship has its problems, but what makes it perfect is if you still want to be together when things go wrong.
Isabelle Peterson
#90. Life isn't easy. Would that every story ended happily, every crisis be averted, everything get a pretty shiny bow, but that's not the world we live in. Life is harsh. Things go wrong, People get hurt, and some even die. That's just the way it goes.
Daniel Younger
#91. When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
Steven Soderbergh
#92. You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#93. I don't know if other people lay down & die when things go wrong or they harden so much they're no longer alive.
H.M. Ward
#94. When things go wrong, they can get ugly. But they don't have to be uglier than they already are, right?
Jeremiah Stevens
#95. Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
And are setting the world by the ears!
Maria Weston Chapman
#96. People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.
Markus Zusak
#97. Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
#98. The danger is different from the fear ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.
Chris Hadfield
#99. When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.
Stephen Covey
#100. The part when they are together for a while, the two of them, before things go wrong. The way things ended always obliterated the genuine happiness that had come before and that shouldn't be the case.
Ann Patchett
