Top 52 Do Not Despise Quotes
#1. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
#2. 11 s My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as t a father the son in whom he delights.
Anonymous
#3. Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#4. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.
Peter Hoeg
#5. But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.
N. T. Wright
#7. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
Jon David
#8. If you chance to fall into any kind of dispute with a friend, do not despise him for this reason, nor betray his confidences. Prov.
Unknown
#9. Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus
#11. Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#13. Shimon ben Azai said: Do not despise any person, and do not dismiss any thing, for there is no one who does not have his hour, and no thing that does not have its place. Pirkei Avot 4:3
Dave Mason
#14. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
Bruce Lee
#16. Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Solomon
#17. All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
Amin Maalouf
#18. Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
Pythagoras
#20. Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.
William Tecumseh Vernon
#22. Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
Samuel Johnson
#25. To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.
Hermann Hesse
#26. Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me.
Jandy Nelson
#27. When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#28. Why do you want to be a vampire?" he asked. "It is not much fun. We can only come out at night. Humans despise us. We have to sleep in dirty old places like this. We can never marry or have children or settle down. It is a horrible life.
Darren Shan
#29. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
#30. Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
Ian Frazier
#32. 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
#33. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Thucydides
#34. Do not let us despise the woman who is neither mother, sister, maid, nor wife
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#35. In hate feeling there is a more or less subtle estimation component.
You do not hate those who take advantage or prevails over someone who is incapable or weak (albeit temporarily), you can at most despise them.
Luigina Sgarro
#36. PROVERBS 1:7-9 ENGAGE 1:7 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but foolsa despise wisdom and instruction. 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
Anonymous
#37. It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.
Charles Caleb Colton
#38. Many who despise you believe it is the only way to lift themselves up. Many who want to be like you do not know who you really are.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
Theodor Herzl
#41. Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it - His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
Geoffrey Wood
#42. An ideal world in my own home ... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for ...
Nick Hornby
#43. We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
David Sarnoff
#44. Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Luc De Clapiers
#45. Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
Eustace Budgell
#47. If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
#48. The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree.
Pamela Wallin
#49. I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?"
"And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know."
"I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!"
"Or leave you as you are," said Sir Maurice gently.
Georgette Heyer
#50. He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
Augusto Pinochet
#51. God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
Georges Bernanos
#52. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
John Calvin
