Wrong Actions Quotes

#1. We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon ... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

C.S. Lewis

#2. [T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Joyce Meyer

#3. If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

Peace Pilgrim

#4. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons

Oche Otorkpa

#6. Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Martin McGuinness

#7. It is the responsiblity of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Michael Moore

#8. 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

#9. Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#10. To move into restoration does not mean the abusers never did anything wrong. Moving forward is also not an indicator that their actions never harmed you. What restoration does is provide the ability for survivors to bring hope back into their lives; maybe for the first time.

Shannon Thomas

#11. To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Hyman Rickover

#12. What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness ... ?

Jay Woodman

#13. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Frances Wright

#14. If the heart be impure, all actions would be wrong.

Indian

#15. Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.

Mark Olshaker

#16. Decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#17. It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

Daniel Tammet

#19. We shouldn't pass judgment until we see how things play out. Actions never tell the whole story. Good can be done for the wrong reason. And bad can be misunderstood.

Shannon Messenger

#20. I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Oscar Wilde

#21. The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

John Dufresne

#22. I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. Sometimes, in order to follow one's heart, one must do the wrong thing. Now, I'm not absolving anyone of their actions; you have to be responsible for your actions, sick or well, you have to be, you just have to be. All of us are accountable.

Craig Ferguson

#24. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Gena Showalter

#25. Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.

James F. Amos

#26. Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Tryon Edwards

#27. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

Jeff Olson

#28. Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#29. You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.

Socrates

#30. Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.

Neel Burton

#31. Why is it anytime somethin's different, it's automatically wrong? That single principle has caused more suffering and tragedy than any other in the history of the world. Our actions make is good or evil, Ana. Nothin more. Nothin' less. (Grey Eyes, Forever Trilogy Part One)

Brandon Alston

#32. For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

Randolph Bourne

#33. Once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret virtually any eventuality as a justification for thinking positively. You need never spend time considering how your actions might go wrong.

Oliver Burkeman

#34. She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

Candace Bushnell

#35. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#36. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Tryon Edwards

#37. Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Charles Spurgeon

#38. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.

Nikki Rowe

#39. It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Peter Akinola

#40. We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Harriet Martineau

#41. We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

Suzy Kassem

#42. I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

Concha Buika

#43. Karma waits on the doorstep, meaning that a person may try to walk away from past actions, but like a dog sleeping by the door until its master returns, Karma can be endlessly patient. Eventually the universe will insist on redressing the balance of wrong with right.

Deepak Chopra

#44. Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Dana Rohrabacher

#45. He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#46. Intentions, whether good or bad, that don't reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.

Ashish Patel

#47. You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Dalai Lama XIV

#48. I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

James DeSantis

#49. Feelings are never wrong. Only actions can be wrong.

David Simpson

#50. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

#51. I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there ... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that.

Brian Dennehy

#52. You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.

Marcus Aurelius

#53. Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#54. Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life ... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

Tony Jeary

#55. If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

Peprah Boasiako

#56. All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".

Howard S. Becker

#57. Positive and negative actions are determined by one's own motivation. If the motivation is good, all actions become positive; if the motivation is wrong, all actions become negative.

Dalai Lama XIV

#58. 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

#59. To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

Peter Singer

#60. Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

Kate Mara

#61. It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy.

Sharon E. Rainey

#62. I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.

David Stern

#63. One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

Suzy Kassem