Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction. — Greg Laurie
Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. — Mandy Hale
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. — Jim Rohn
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. — Turkish Proverbs
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
Short Wrong Direction Quotes
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. — Irwin Corey
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. — Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. — Lao Tzu
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. — Antonio Porchia
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around. — Edgar Cayce
It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. — Diane Grant
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. — Proverbs
Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction. — Elie Tahari
Wrong Direction Image Quotes
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Going In The Wrong Direction Quotes
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. — Maxwell Maltz
Going in the wrong direction but making really good time — Cheri Huber
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. — Mahatma Gandhi
If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them. — Steve Scalise
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction — Ashleigh Brilliant
If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction.
But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. — Jonah Goldberg
Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do. — Clint Eastwood
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand. — Thomas Friedman
Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential. — Tom Rath
Heading The Wrong Direction Quotes
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction. — Ogden Nash
Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children. — Bob Filner
Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is. — Marcy Kaptur
I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.' — Richard MacDonald
Seven out of 10 Americans know the country's headed in the wrong direction, that in a very real sense that this is a clear choice between change in the status quo and I've always been telling crowds, the other side says if you like your status quo you can keep it. — Mike Pence
Everybody thinks America's headed the wrong direction. There's a reason for it. We're where we are because of policies implemented by Obama Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. — Rush Limbaugh
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more. — T.C. Boyle
In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). — Michael Moore
According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there. — Jay Leno
Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction. — Sayings
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips — Steven Furtick
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone. — Zayn Malik
If there’s something you want to do, then that means you have a goal. But that goal may change as you live. You never know when your interests may change direction, so always anticipate it, day by day. — Kim Tae-yeon
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. — John P. Kotter
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. — Jim Rohn
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. — Margaret Thatcher
Opposite Direction Quotes
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity. — U.G. Krishnamurti
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C. S. Lewis
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. — Grace Jones
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. — Dwight Schultz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — E. F. Schumacher
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. — Jack Levine
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. — Mary Jo Putney
Right Direction Quotes
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet. — Myles Munroe
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction. — April Greiman
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration. — Joel Osteen
One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our intelligence, and thus change the direction of our life. — Mahatria Ra
Those who take the lead take it by doing three things. First, science to be able to manoeuvre; second, knowledge to be able to heavily invest in education; and third, a very wise leadership with a clear vision and a roadmap to the right direction. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wrong Way Quotes
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill
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
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. — Michael Jordan
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason. — Joe Budden
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. — Jayne Mansfield
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. — Vance Havner
Wrong Path Quotes
The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path. — Phyllis Schlafly
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. — Guy Gavriel Kay
You can actually become a better person today if you follow the correct path. Contrarily, you can also become worse by doing the wrong things. The choice is yours. I recommend you get better. — Jocko Willink
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. — Robert Southwell
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. — Natsuki Takaya
In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light. — Akiane Kramarik
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. — Vernon Howard
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. — Bruce Lee
…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. — Mark Nepo
All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path. — Dan Gable
Wrong Road Quotes
You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. — C. S. Lewis
Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one. — Paul Tudor Jones
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. — Darren Aronofsky
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken? — Damon Knight
I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong. — Matt Walsh
I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads. — Kiana Tom
It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that! — Katherine Stinson
No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us. — Jim Rohn
Moving In The Right Direction Quotes
Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction. — Nicola Sturgeon
The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
God will lead us as we start moving in the right direction, as we are figuring things out. He will provide ideas and inspiration. It’s up to you to listen. — Russell Brunson
Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing. — Kara Goucher
Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction. — Sayings
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. — Monte Irvin
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way. — Nelson Mandela
I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games. — John Starks
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind. — Stedman Graham
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. — John Prescott
Wrong Turn Quotes
True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. — Desmond Tutu
You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong. — Fred Hollows
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. — Russell Baker
In 2008-09, when the Fed started quantitative easing, I thought that inflation would take off. I was wrong. Instead, velocity - the rate at which money turns over per year - declined, taking away its inflationary sting. Velocity still is falling. — Cathie Wood
I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man. — Mila Kunis
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. — Hedy Lamarr
I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn? — Rumi
The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream. — Denis Johnson
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too. — Marilyn vos Savant
Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn. — Mark Batterson
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong. — Zayn Malik
Given that they are so wrong, how do the ideologues defend their idea pathogens? Under totalitarian regimes, the solution is direct. You criminalize if not violently suppress or kill any dissenting voices. In the West, the ideological indoctrination is subtler. It is achieved by an ethos of political correctness and best enforces by creating university campuses that lack intellectual diversity. — Gad Saad
We don’t know how time and circumstances will change what we want and even who we want to be, and locking our life GPS onto a single target can give us the right directions to the wrong destination. — Adam Grant
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill
The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. — Bob Sorge
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way. — Bill Ackman
Foreclosing on one identity is like following a GPS that gives you the right directions to the wrong destination. — Adam Grant
We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families. — Bernie Sanders
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker. — Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently. — Jane Campion
I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts — Angie Martinez
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions. — Bryan Stevenson
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information. — Edward Abbey
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. — Jim Cramer
If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad. — Willie Nelson
I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand. — Art Wolfe
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste. — Henry Clay Trumbull
I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction. — George Soros
Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more. — Squarepusher
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. — Walter Jon Williams
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. — Jeremy Bentham
Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me. — Sean Paul
Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing. — Michael Giacchino
I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction. — Andy Stanley
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. — J. K. Rowling
There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street. — Prince Royce
Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction. — George H. W. Bush
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction. — Joshua Harris
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris
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