Wrong Thing Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Wrong Thing Quotes from famous persons: Greg Davies, Shaquill Griffin, Gary Burghoff, Paul Sinha, Lee Westwood. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Wrong Thing Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

My dad always told me that, as far as he’s concerned, I can do whatever I choose in life as long as I’m happy and can handle the consequences of bad decisions. He only ever said that when he thought I was doing the wrong thing. I would employ similar passive aggression.

Greg Davies

As a team and as a player, it’s about winning, and if you‘re only thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the wrong thing.

Shaquill Griffin

I’ve discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working – doing good work – and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn’t enrich my life with my family, I’m doing the wrong thing.

Gary Burghoff

Ive always been one of those comics who doesnt say much on panel shows because Im terrified of saying the wrong thing or offending the wrong person.

Paul Sinha

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

Marvel makes you feel like ‘Iron Man’ will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.

J. August Richards

I say to the Occupy protesters – you’re occupying the wrong place, you’re protesting the wrong thing.

Sarah Palin

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

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

T. S. Eliot

I actually felt bad because I was dunking the ball so much. I led the league in dunks one year, and they told me that was the wrong thing to do.

Shawn Kemp

I just have to be myself. I’m not perfect, and I’m going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

Laverne Cox

If you go into a shopping centre, there are phones and cameras everywhere, and if you’re doing the wrong thing, ultimately you’re going to get found out. So it’s important you’re living your life right, and that’s hard for a young player.

Gareth Barry

My mother was German, and I was brought up with ‘Struwwelpeter’ stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.

Cornelia Parker

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

Tony Blair

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

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Robert E. Lee

One philosophy I have at Angel List is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

Naval Ravikant

My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.

Jacqueline Woodson

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

William A. Dembski

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

Maurice Sendak

Once you accept that we’re all imperfect, it’s the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

Paloma Faith

It doesn’t make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

Jim DeMint

For too long people have been scared to offend people, or to say the wrong thing. You know what? You might say the wrong thing, like I might say the wrong thing, but we’re all learning, and how are we ever going to see any type of change if we don’t?

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

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

Robert E. Lee

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

Being cut doesn’t mean nothing. You get cut for saying the wrong thing. You get cut for having a couple of bad fights. It happens.

Corey Anderson

You shouldn’t change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we’re afraid, we don’t care very much about those values.

Edward Snowden

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Alex Gibney

If you try to guess what people are gonna think, you’re chasing the wrong thing.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

I’ve played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression. If that’s what you’re working on when you’re doing a scene, then your focus is on the wrong thing.

Tim Matheson

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

Rick Riordan

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

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don’t have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

Per Petterson

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

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

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

Adam McKay

It would be the completely wrong thing to go into games with fear.

Ilkay Gundogan

When you spend such a large portion of your life working – and it’s not fun, and you’re worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party – then what has work done to America? That’s the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

T. J. Miller

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Pope Francis

A comic‘s like anybody else – he does what he does to support himself and feed his family. But if a comic says the wrong thing, there’s a chance the audience will want to take you down.

Charlie Murphy

If we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said – it’s the wrong thing to do.

Ed Schultz

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn’t help it! As you get older, you’re more guarded, but that’s a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

Cliff Chiang

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

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

Booker T

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

Justin Simien

A lot of the stuff that I’ve done has been more drama and less comedy. I’ve had some opportunities to do some comedy, and I’ve often wanted to do that because it fits with me very comfortably because I talk too much, and I’m always saying the wrong thing all the time.

Cush Jumbo

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

James Carville

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

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