Hurting People Quotes:

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurt And Pain, Hurt My Feelings

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Hurt, Hurting People, Anger And Forgiveness

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

- Layne Staley

topic: Hurt, Reality, People, Hurting People, Dig Deep

Hurting people is my business.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

topic: Hurt, People, Religion, Hurting People

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Beautiful, Hurt, Mean, Hurting People

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Hurt, People, Dare, Hurting People, Contentious

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Hurt, Heart, People, Hurting People

Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hurt, People, Kind, Hurting People

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

- Peter Singer

topic: Hurt, Sex, Lying, Hurting People, Moral Character

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Hurt, People, Suffering, Hurting People

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

- John D. MacDonald

topic: Hurt, Coffee, People, Hurting People

I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.

- Lily Allen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Long, Hurting People

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

- E. L. Konigsburg

topic: Hurt, Believe, Civilization, Hurting People, Western Civilization

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

topic: Hurt, Naughty, People, Hurting People

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

- Ann Voskamp

source: Source: churchleaders.com

topic: Hurt, New York, Book, Hurting People, One Thousand Gifts

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

- David Mitchell

topic: Life, Hurt, People, Hurting People

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Hurt, Writing, People, Hurting People

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.

- Tonya Harding

topic: Hurt, Hate, Fighting, Hurting People

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Hurt, Blessed, Blessing, Hurting People

If I'm a blessing to you, then either God will put it on your heart to bless me, or he'll use somebody else to bless me. If I'm friendly with you, then I'll have friends. If I'm merciful with people, the Bible says I'll get mercy back. If I'm not judgmental, then people won't be judgmental with me. And it works also with finances. If you give to help other hurting people and you give to the preaching of the gospel, because you love God, then God takes care of you.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Hurt, Heart, Blessing, Hurting People

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

- Carol Plum-Ucci

topic: Hurt, Knowing, People, Hurting People

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

source: "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

topic: Hurt, People, May, Hurting People

My business is hurting people.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

topic: Funny, Hurt, People, Hurting People

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

- Jim Talent

topic: Strong, Hurt, People, Hurting People, Strong Family

People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.

- Layne Staley

topic: Hurt, Dope, Years, Hurting People

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

- Jackie Chan

source: Twitter post from May 29, 2012

topic: Art, Hurt, People, Hurting People

No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Hurt, Heart, People, Hurting People

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

- David Ortiz

topic: Hurt, Men, People, Hurting People

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

topic: Hurt, War, Thug, Hurting People

Hurting people is such a boyish thing to do.

- Rebecca

topic: Hurt, People, Boyish, Hurting People

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

- Colson Whitehead

source: Source: www.oprah.com

topic: Hurt, Thinking, People, Hurting People