Reproof Quotes
Reproof Quote of the day
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.