Wrong Thing Quotes

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Best, Nothing, Decision

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember, Moment, Place

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
T. S. Eliot

Love, Faith, Hope

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin

Life, Moment, Wrong

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot

Hope, Soul, Said

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone

Strong, Wrong, Knowing

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. Lee

Friend, Wrong, Keep

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra

Live, Mind, Real

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Brad Pitt

Success, Away, Wrong

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.
Mehmet Oz

Same, Wrong, Tell

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair

Win, Sometimes, Wrong

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
Herman Cain

Wrong, Gone, Rule

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin

Education, Knowledge, Wrong

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
Maurice Sendak

Children, Human, Sometimes

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
Sarah Palin

Place, Wrong, Occupy

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
Jim DeMint

Wrong, Sense, Order

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.
James Dyson

Different, Wrong, Start

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
Jarvis Cocker

Music, Mind, Living

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.
Tony Dungy

Bad, Football, Mean

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
Richard Russo

Wrong, Books, Characters

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
Bill Murray

Time, Good, Money

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville

Done, Sometimes, Wrong

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
Lee Westwood

Time, Game, Trying

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
Charles E. Wilson

Time, Good, Stupid

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.
Robert Sternberg

Long, Same, Wrong

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
Matthew Perry

Women, Wrong, Everybody

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
Jayson Blair

Wrong, Talk, Stories

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
Bill Scott

Legal, Wrong, Step

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
Frances Bean Cobain

Someone, Wrong, Tell

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
Jack Hanna

Find, Wrong, Afraid

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