Best Bad Thing Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Even a bad thing teaches you something. I just learn and move on.”

“While I'm acutely aware that justice doesn't need a modifier and that not every bad thing that happens to me is a hate crime, being abused because of how you look is not - and will never be - okay.”

“Punting the ball is not a bad thing.”

“How can knowing more be a bad thing? You can only look each other in the eye when you know the history the world shares.”

“If you ask any guy I've ever played with or around, they don't have one bad thing to say because I try to get to know every single one of my teammates no matter what situation I'm in.”

“Working together to achieve common goals is not a bad thing. It's a good thing.”

“If you make a book which is little more than putting a television script on the page, and add a few pictures, that would be a bad thing. But I would never do that because I happen to be very interested in language, in writing.”

“What happened to my dad, it was a bad thing, a sad thing. But I think it opened my eyes to do the right things.”

“I don't have a lot of lateral movement. A lot of the great players have lateral movement - which is not necessarily a bad thing - but, too much, and if you don't get the proper tilt, you're going to hit down on the ball.”

“There's something about being away from home that it's not always a bad thing.”

“As a queer woman of colour I've been asked to be more urban, as if my brand of Blackness wasn't quite Black enough. I think that's interesting. I've also been asked to be more butch, which is not a bad thing. But sometimes you'd like to be able to bring your sheer humanity to a role.”

“Your team is so important and just being humble, like that's always not a bad thing at all.”

“I don't think it's a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don't vote that money goes to support the election process.”

“I guess I don't think sometimes, and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes that's a bad thing.”

“I like how calm and chill it is in Utah. It's a good thing and it's a bad thing. The bad part is, maybe after a big game you want to go out and hang out or whatever, and there's really not too many spots like that in Utah.”

“It upsets me that people think what I'm doing is a bad thing. I don't think it's a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it?... If I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will.”

“When I went up there it was with one goal was to win a championship. Obviously that didn't happen but I don't have one bad thing to say about my time in Boston.”

“As a black manager, somebody talking in good terms about me I don't think can be a bad thing.”

“I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.”

“It can never be a bad thing encouraging people to exercise.”

“Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.”

“You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.”

“Controversy is not necessarily a bad thing. It's a good thing at times.”

“We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.”

“For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.”

“What I try to do is to look ahead of me and not look back. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing, I'm just focused on trying to get better.”

“I used to feel guilty about having nice things, because there was so much good I could be doing with that money. I always tell people that, if you can afford what I'm wearing, then you can afford to make a difference. But fashion has taught me that it's not a bad thing to love yourself and take care of yourself.”

“Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.”

“Being a Paul Heyman Guy wouldn't be such a bad thing!”

“Once you win, you get used to winning, and that's not a bad thing.”

“The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.”

“There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing.”

“It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington.”

“If people say I paid someone more because I liked them, okay. I don't think that's a bad thing.”

“Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.”

“I would say it's part tomboy, part hipster, definitely part want-to-be-very-comfortable. Fashion is a way for me to express myself. I guess I'm vain in that sense. It's not a bad thing.”

“The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.”

“I feel matured in a way that I'm happy about. I'm at this other stage in my life - and it's not a bad thing at all.”

“You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.”

“'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.”

“States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.”

“I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.”

“There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.”

“I don't have a bad thing to say about Vince McMahon.”

“Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.”

“Walking away from fame, whether by choice or necessity, isn't a bad thing. In fact for many, it's likely saved their lives, careers, families and basic dignity. More celebrities should probably try it.”

“I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.”

“I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'”

“I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.”

“I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.”

“The one thing about working with Scott Coker - I've never heard a bad thing about Scott Coker. And that means a lot, especially in our sport.”

“Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.”

“Denial is not always a bad thing. Without it, you couldn't function. For instance, if you were hyperaware and hypervigilant regarding all the dangers in the world - from driving your car to crossing the street to eating food that might have contaminants in it to taking medications that have many side effects, etc. - you would become frozen.”

“I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.”

“There are a lot of women who direct in a way that is even more masculine sometimes than men - and that's not a bad thing, either.”

“'Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility. I don't think it is a bad thing to discuss what these costs are.”

“It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.”

“I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.”

“It's not a bad thing for independent traders to come into a high street to mix things up, but what shouldn't happen is that the traders who were there before are priced out.”

“You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.”

“For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.”

“First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.”

“If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking.”

“I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.”

“From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.”

“In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.”

“I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.”

“'Lost' was filmed in Hawaii, so we stayed there and loved it, so we thought, 'Why would we leave?' It is a bit like growing up in a bubble, but I don't think that's a bad thing, as you will eventually get out and see the real world.”

“My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.”

“When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.”

“These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.”

“I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'”

“I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.”

“The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.”

“The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”

“Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.”

“The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.”

“I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.”

“It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.”

“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.”

“I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.”

“We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.”

“You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.”

“In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.”

“I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.”

“The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.”

“I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.”

“The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.”

“Salacious? I suppose every once in a while the salacious thing is not a bad thing. It's kind of monochromatic if that's all you do.”

“Listen: when you work for an employer for six years, are you gonna sit here and tell me you ain't gotta bad thing to say about them?”

“There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.”

“I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.”

“Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.”

“Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.”

“It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.”

“Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.”

“I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.”

“Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.”

“While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.”

“There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.”