Accepting Quote by D. A. Carson

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the…

— Jonathan Swift

Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those…

— Saint Basil

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

— Stephen Jackson

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

— Cat Stevens

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each…

— Charlie Munger

ITS BETTER TO PREVENT AND PREPAIR THAN REPENT AND REPAIR.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

— Richelle Mead

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

— Bill Mollison

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

— Elizabeth Aston