Include yourself in any reproof.

He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.

— Nachman of Breslov

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

— Walter Savage Landor

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

— William Shakespeare

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore…

— Vance Havner

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

— Moliere

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.

— Therese of Lisieux

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth…

— Roger Chamberlain

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start…

— Augustus William Hare

The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his…

— Edward Gibbon

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,…

— William Shakespeare

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

— Samuel Smiles

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

— Samuel Johnson