Top 39 Constructive And Destructive Quotes
#1. The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
Criss Jami
#2. The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I
Linda Tirado
#3. Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE.
Michelle Cook-Hall
#4. We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.
Iyanla Vanzant
#6. Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.
Zane Grey
#7. Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.
James Woods
#8. The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
Steve Jobs
#9. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
Napoleon Hill
#10. The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.
Gena Showalter
#11. Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.
Frank X. Barron
#12. Granted, anger can be misplaced and is often destructive, but anger generates passion, and that energy, if used correctly, can be highly constructive.
David W. Earle
#13. There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
John Oliver
#15. Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.
Seth Adam Smith
#16. The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.
Jaron Lanier
#17. We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
#18. Being a real friend meant being truthful, and I wanted to stand by that principle, no matter what it cost me
Frank Cascio
#19. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
#20. We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.
Chaim Weizmann
#21. To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.
Dalai Lama
#22. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
Dalai Lama
#23. In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
Dada Bhagwan
#24. But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#25. Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
Nirmala Srivastava
#26. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.
Adriana Locke
#27. Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.
Alan Cohen
#29. We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can break the chain and turn the energy of a destructive emotion into a constructive action.
Laura Archera Huxley
#30. Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
Theodore Roosevelt
#31. Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.
Arthur William Galston
#32. Things kind of happen organically with me.
Jules Shear
#33. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
#34. The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Noah Webster
#35. Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
Chrissie Hynde
#36. Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#37. What should he do? It is simple. If he can escape from the grip of the people who wield the whip, he must run away. If he could have evaded his tormentors in the first place, he should have.
Simone Weil
#38. Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age.
Jonas Salk
