These bad situation quotes will inspire you. Bad situation, something that is bad is unpleasant, harmful, or undesirable.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging bad situation quotes, bad situation sayings, and bad situation proverbs.
Best Bad Situation Quotes
- “The biggest lessons I’ve learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn’t the one who was angry.” ~ Evan Rachel Wood
- “We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don’t believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.” ~ Angelina Jolie , Life bad situation quotes
- “Even in a bad situation, there’s always a positive side. Even if you can’t see it yet.” ~ Susane Colasanti
- “I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.” ~ Harry Shearer
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“All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can’t worsen.” ~ Maureen Johnson
- “Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.” ~ Amy Winehouse
- “Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon , Overcoming bad situation quotes
- “No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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“A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.” ~ Kathie Lee Gifford
- “If someone breaks into your home when you’re there – that is, they don’t wait to be sure that the house is empty – it’s a bad situation. Honor doesn’t come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.” ~ Jonathan Gottschall
- “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.” ~ Stephen Fry
- “As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It’s not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That’s what I’m trying to do.” ~ Eli Manning
- “In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?” ~ Philip Zimbardo
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“All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.” ~ Ryan Lochte
- “My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression, and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.” ~ Idi Amin
- “The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.” ~ Theodore Dreiser , Make best of bad situation quotes
- “You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, ‘I’m gonna kick somebody’s ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I’m gonna beat someone’s ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.” ~ Rodney King
- “Don’t confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.” ~ Lee L Jampolsky
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“In any bad situation, you can not let yourself be a victim.” ~ Jack Welch
- “When you see illegals and people who aren’t citizens and they’re on the registration rolls … We can be babies, but you take a look at the registration you have illegals, you have dead people, you have this. It’s really a bad situation. It’s really bad.” ~ Donald Trump
- “There’s a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad, there will be more intervention, and so forth. But I don’t know if that’s going to be fulfilled. If there is more intervention, then I think it’s going to go the same way as these other interventions that we’ve seen in Iraq, we’ve seen, to a degree, in Syria, we’ve seen in Libya, you know, that they do really badly. They make bad situations worse.” ~ Patrick Cockburn
- “Kids can make a difference by telling an adult about any bullying they see. Kids need to know that they can be helpful in a bad situation if they get help quickly and also they need to stand up for the child that’s being bullied.” ~ Josh Flitter
- “I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young – you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.” ~ DJ Ashba
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“You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.” ~ Emma Stone
- “If you’re working on something and it’s not coming together, it’s easy to say, “I don’t want to show this until I’ve figured it out.” But a lot of times you don’t really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don’t have the time to fix it.” ~ Lee Unkrich
- “I’ve felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it’s sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it’s general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.” ~ William Finnegan
- “People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn’t mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.” ~ Master P
- “At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyberbullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.” ~ Anna Maria Chavez
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“I’m very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won’t end up in a bad situation when I grow up.” ~ Raven-Symone
- “I grew up upper-class. In private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
- “I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.” ~ Tina Fey
- “She didn’t know a lot about politics – yet – but she’d learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.” ~ David Weber
- “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” ~ Stephen Fry
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“If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.” ~ Philip Zimbardo
- “I’ve heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.” ~ Deb Caletti
- “Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet” ~ George S. Patton
- “I’ve learned the lesson that when you’re in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you’re in a bad situation and it seems like it’s the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it’s not.” ~ Lee Ann Womack
- “Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.” ~ Russell Simmons
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“Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “James, that’s a bad situation. I’m not saying it’s not repairable, but it’s pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band… as far as I’m concerned, he was playing down at the pub.” ~ Billy Corgan
- “Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg
- “It’s more like you write what comes to you… You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take ‘Rearviewmirror’, we start off with the music, and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There’s an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.” ~ Eddie Vedder
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“I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.” ~ Mary J. Blige
- “We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can’t do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. In fact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is, in this case, is the evil place won over the good people.” ~ Philip Zimbardo
- “At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again – not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.” ~ Hugh Prather
- “I could not bounce back from my divorce – emotionally – I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before – a bad game or my two previous divorces – I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful, and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep – couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.” ~ Terry Bradshaw
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“He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.” ~ Branch Rickey
- “I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.” ~ Josh Hutcherson
- “Don’t cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it’s the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I’m trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I’m just more interested in that.” ~ Leslye Headland
- “To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.” ~ Jerry Bridges
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“Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.” ~ Oliver Stone
- “I’ve never experienced a bad situation with men being sexist with me. I’ve been very lucky – even when I was just starting and modeling in Milan and Paris.” ~ Gal Gadot
- “People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They’ve been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.” ~ Amanda Ripley
- “We’ve all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you’re in a position where you’re gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, “Oh, I’ve got that thing in the oven.” Lie. Get off the phone. Don’t perpetuate a bad situation.” ~ Joe Manganiello
- “Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.” ~ Chris Tucker
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“Obviously, every game’s big. It’s lose or get yourself in a bad situation.” ~ Jered Weaver
- “Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you’re put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.” ~ Alexandra Daddario
- “Life for women in ancient Greece was hard – you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women and in another time and place their lives would have been very different. Part of the tragedy of their characters is how much they have to offer – and how little of that they get to realize. Thetis spends the whole novel fighting the limitations placed on her, desperately trying to eke out the best she can from a bad situation. This makes her fierce and terrifying.” ~ Madeline Miller
- “I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, “Don’t even worry about snakes anymore”. My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, “Lay down!”” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Don’t stay in a bad situation – whether it is a relationship or a job – out of fear of failure. It’s not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.” ~ Danielle Trussoni
