Bad Decision Quotes

• Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Responsibility, Positivity, Decision

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 27, 2011

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• Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

  Mark Twain

  Decision, Good Decision

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• Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

  Dick Vitale

  Simple, Decision, Life Is

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• Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

  James C. Collins

  Decision, Good Intentions, Good To Great

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• you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

  Lauren Conrad

  Mistake, Choices, Same Mistakes

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• The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decision, Life Is, Made

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.705, St. Martin's Griffin

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  It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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• Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

  Janette Rallison

  Children, Decision, Selling

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• If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

  Mary McCarthy

  Decision, Realistic, Ifs

  On the Contrary "The American Realist Playwrights" (1961)

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• Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

  Karrine Steffans

  Long, Decision, Forever

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.681, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Tangled, Decision, Luck

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.225, Penguin

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• People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

  Maisie Williams

  People, Decision, Path

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• My life is littered with bad decisions.

  Will Forte

  Decision, Life Is

  "Mr. Saturday Night: Will Forte". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. March 2, 2010.

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• So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Decision, Wrong Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

  Joyce Meyer

  Starting Over, Decision, Over You

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2011

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  Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

  Steve Ditko

  Gun, Power, Choices

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• Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

  Miranda July

  Inspirational, Being Single, Decision

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• If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

  Geoff Ramsey

  Work Out, Decision, Enough

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• Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Decision, Lesson Learned, Lessons

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

  Bruce Campbell

  People, Decision, Innocent

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning than I can list!

  Tim Gunn

  Morning, Decision, Lists

  "'Project Runway' ('What's the Skinny?')". Game-Show, Reality-TV, December 12, 2007.

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• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Waste

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

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