OPINION

When things go wrong

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     (SB) – We all have bad days… days that everything seems to go wrong. So, just to let you know you are not alone, I’ve compiled quotes from well-known, and little-known persons. Check it out.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
     We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong. ~Simon Sinek
     When things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Elvis Presley
     When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better. ~C. S. Lewis
     People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong. ~Christina Aguilera
     You learn more when things go wrong. ~David E. Kelley
     Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. ~Marilyn Monroe
     Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ~Michael Jordan
     When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more. ~Sara Nelson
     The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
     Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail. ~Sophie Kinsella
     Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
     Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of. ~ Paul Arden
     When things go wrong, I just think: It's part of the journey. ~Kenny Wallace
     Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong. ~Ronald Reagan
     There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. ~Meher Baba
     If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better. ~Kathryn Schulz
     I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong. ~Michael Symon
     The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ~Douglas Adams
     A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong. ~Simon Sinek
     For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine. ~Robert Fulghum
     A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right? -- because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue. ~Atul Gawande
     It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American. ~Christian Bale