Constructive Destructive Quotes

#1. The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

Steve Jobs

#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. Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

John Catsimatidis

#8. 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

#9. The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.

Gena Showalter

#10. so, he wondered,

Michael Connelly

#11. 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

#12. There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

John Oliver

#13. Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

Seth Adam Smith

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

Criss Jami

#18. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. 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

#24. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

#25. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,

Anonymous

#26. To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#27. Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested in how they feel and in their point of view.

Haim G. Ginott

#28. Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Theodore Roosevelt

#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. 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

#31. If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

Karin Slaughter

#32. 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

#33. In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.

Dada Bhagwan

#34. 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