66 Turn The Other Cheek Quotes
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Famous Turn The Other Cheek Quotes
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. — Seneca
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. — Seneca The Elder
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A soft answer turneth away wrath. — Proverbs
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
Do unto others, then run — Benny Hill
He who puts up with insult invites injury. — Yiddish Proverbs
Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall — Kyuzo Mifune
Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you — Luke the Evangelist
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well — Epictetus
Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults — Antisthenes
If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread. — Filipino Proverbs
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. — Harvey Penick
Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then. — Craig Newmark
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. — Epictetus
Short Turn The Other Cheek Quotes
- A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
- It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca The Elder
- An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. — Saint Augustine
- Let a man overcome anger by love. — Buddha
- Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break — Jane Wells
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More Turn The Other Cheek Quotes
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor
I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school. Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive. But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way. — Selena Gomez
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. — Kurt Vonnegut
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. — Anton Szandor LaVey
However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel! — Emily Bronte
I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown." — Laura Bell Bundy
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) — Rob Bell
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. — Kenny Rogers
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. — Gerald Stanley Lee
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work. — Alice Bag
Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct. — Frederick Lenz
Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. — Joan Z. Borysenko
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too. — Charles Barkley
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. — Dorothy Day
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself. — Malcolm X
There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'. — Robert Spencer
Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek. — Anne Ellis
Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39 — Bible
If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. — George Orwell
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. — John Lydon
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks. — Richard Peck
When I'm looking for a leader who's going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don't want some meek and mild leader or somebody who's going to turn the other cheek. — Robert Jeffress
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant. — Roy H. Williams
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays. — Peter Singer
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually. — E. Stanley Jones
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. — Gary North
We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people? — Bill O'Reilly
If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off. — Maya Angelou
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. — Malcolm X
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek. — John C. Maxwell
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. — Al-Waleed bin Talal
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. — Malcolm X
I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. — Max von Sydow
I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.' — Dorothy Day
I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites. — Malcolm X
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek. — Malcolm X
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us. — Malcolm X
The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality. — Malcolm X
I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people. — Malcolm X
When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation. — Amos Oz
Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though. — Jim Carrey
If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. — Angela Elwell Hunt
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff. — Lino Rulli
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