54 Easily Offended Quotes
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Famous Easily Offended Quotes
The easier you are to offend, the easier you are to control. — Alex Hormozi
Humble people dont get Offended easily. — Radhanath Swami
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense. — John Wesley
The strength of your character is inversely correlated with how easy you are to offend. — Alex Hormozi
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. — Carlos Castaneda
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. — Carlos Castaneda
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. — Aristotle
People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good. — Mark Manson
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron
If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem — Nouman Ali Khan
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool. — Brigham Young
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense. — Ken Kesey
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life. — Deepak Chopra
Taking Offense Quotes
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can. — Elizabeth I
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again. — Maajid Nawaz
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. — Anita Brookner
If a stone thrown upward hits you, don’t take offense. — Filipino Proverbs
Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively. — Darcy Tucker
A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up. — Mark Rippetoe
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr.
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy. — St. Catherine of Siena
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others. — Richard Sibbes
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach
People Writing About Easily Offended
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Alex Hormozi |
137 | 1 |
 Carlos Castaneda |
217 | 4356 |
 Radhanath Swami |
211 | 436 |
 Alexander Pope |
756 | 3847 |
 John Wesley |
199 | 4145 |
 Aristotle |
1252 | 18854 |
More Easily Offended Quotes
God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us. — Graham Cooke
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. — Brit Hume
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others. — Thomas S. Monson
I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it. — Kim Delaney
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. — Thomas of Villanova
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. — Bruce Lee
Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love. — Alex Kendrick
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others. — Francois FeNelon
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. — Ezra Taft Benson
I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended. — Billy Connolly
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously — Dalai Lama
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. — Billy Connolly
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others. — Francois FeNelon
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. — Samuel Johnson
Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet? — Calvin Cheng
It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. — Rick Riordan
Everyone's extremely and easily offended now. — Brad Williams
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with. — George Bernard Shaw
I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge. — Rashida Jones
It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended. — Andy Dick
I think TV companies don't take as many risks any more, it's a bit more prescriptive. There are more channels but there seems to be actually less main network channel comedy. You can't offend people as easily, people take things very seriously now. I think that's down to social media though because people can have little tribes of offence. — Jennifer Saunders
The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous. — John Cole
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. — Thomas the Apostle
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’ — Kurt Vonnegut
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am. — Andy Dick
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. — Sayings
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it. — Barry Long
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