Bad Choices Quotes

• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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

  Rick Warren

  Choices, Advice, Choose Wisely

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 16, 2013

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

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• 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

  People, Choices, Professional Success

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• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Choices, Made, Results

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• 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

  Mistake, Heart, Choices

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• It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

  Justin Cronin

  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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

  Sara Bareilles

  People, Choices, Shade

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Karen Kingsbury

  Choices, Choices You Make, Seems

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Choices, Helping, Results

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2014

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• One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Choices, Protection, Mask

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• I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Choices, Imperfect

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

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

  Eleanor Mondale

  Men, Choices, Taste

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• 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

  Mistake, People, Choices

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• 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

  Children, Mean, America

  "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

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• We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Mean, Choices, Wish

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• For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing.

  Esther Hicks

  Art, People, Decision

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• To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Choices, Rakes

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• The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

  Rick Santorum

  Girl, People, Choices

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• I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

  Amy Grant

  Choices, Not Good Enough, Arena

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• I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Thinking, Choices, Turns

  "Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.

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• You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Choices, Finding Yourself, Spirals

  "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Relationship, Mistake

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• I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

  Minnie Driver

  Past, Choices, Done

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• I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Choices, Luck

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