Following is our list of the most famous reproof quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational reproof quotes. Hopefully, these reproof quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your reproof knowledge!
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. — Leonardo da Vinci
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. — John Bunyan
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. — Proverbs
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. — Socrates
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. — David Brin
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. — Demosthenes
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley
Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you. — Bible Proverbs
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. — Huineng
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi‘i
The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride. — John Paul Jackson
By others faults the wise correct their own. — Proverbs
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. — Corrie Ten Boom
Corrections are good, they keep us all humble. — Cathie Wood
Short Reproof Quotes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof! — Amelia Bloomer
Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. — William Shakespeare
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. Proverbs 15: 31 — Bible
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
He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great. — Nachman of Breslov
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. — Hosea Ballou
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. — Proverbs
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it. — George Washington
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. — Paul the Apostle
Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company. — Buddha
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof. — David O. Mckay
Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer. — William Styron
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 up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning. — Augustus William Hare
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection. — Saint Francis de Sales
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. — Erich von Stroheim
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help. — John Woolman
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
Include yourself in any reproof. — 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 most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb. — Charles Churchill
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. — Buddha
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Proverbs 29:15 — Bible
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. — Confucius
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. — Marguerite Yourcenar
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool. — Gelett Burgess
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. — Louisa May Alcott
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. — William Shakespeare
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes. — Samuel Lover
Sarcasm spoils reproof. — E. Wigglesworh
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. — Alfred North Whitehead
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. — Roger Chamberlain
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof. — Sarah Josepha Hale
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual. — Edward Gibbon
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. — Hosea Ballou
Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof. — Plutarch
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 is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked. — Vance Havner
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