Wrong Actions Quotes

• Any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Confidence, Action

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.

  Harlan Ellison

  Strong, Powerful, Philosophy

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook: Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Miracle, Done

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• America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia. But what we don't need is to do that in a manner that seems to approve or not hold them accountable for some pretty wrong actions that they have taken across the past, starting in '08 with the invasion of Georgia and then in '14, the invasion of Crimea, and then subsequently, the invasion of the Donbass - and frankly, some of the way they have conducted their self in Syria.

  Philip M. Breedlove

  Moving, Taken, Past

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• [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

  Christian, Godly, Care

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• At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Feelings, The End Of The Day

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

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• No outward thing - nothing, nobody from without - can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt psychologically by my own wrong actions, which I have control over; by my own wrong reactions (they are tricky, but I have control over them too); or by my own inaction in some situations, like the present world situation, that need action from me. When I recognized all this how free I felt! And I just stopped hurting myself.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hurt, Needs, World

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.20, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• 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

  Hurt, Action, Ifs

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• 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

  Abuse, Weapons, Void

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• A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fire, May, Fool

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• Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

  Aldo Leopold

  Yield, Doe, Pay

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.346, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

  Libba Bray

  Sorry, Mistake, People

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1216, Delacorte Press

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• 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

  Yoga, Evil, Personality

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• In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mean, Wicked, Action

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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