Reprove Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
— Francois Fenelon
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Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or…
— Zbigniew Herbert
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
— Socrates
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
— Gautama Buddha
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of…
— Isaac Barrow
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You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of…
— John Climacus
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This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power…
— Vance Havner
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A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If…
— William Gurnall
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I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like…
— Ari Graynor
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Stern daughter of the voice of God! OÂ Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring…
— William Wordsworth
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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do…
— Thomas Campion
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
— John Ortberg
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
— Solon
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
— Publilius Syrus
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? / And…
— Bible
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At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them worse,…
— Augustine
Who Wrote These Reprove Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Reprove Quotes as follows: