Quotes About Argumentative People

#1. There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

Peter Brook

#2. The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people ... the more peaceful your life will become.

Mandy Hale

#3. At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

David J. Lieberman

#4. If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

Donna Lynn Hope

#5. The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

Peter Drucker

#6. There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

#7. Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

Steve Backley

#8. The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even if the road ends!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#10. Dean's California
wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

Jack Kerouac

#11. That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.

Kate Lord Brown

#12. It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

J. Maarten Troost

#13. I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

Bert McCracken

#14. The patient in question was a young woman whose parents brought her in because she complained incessantly of stomach pains. Freud diagnosed her with hysteria. A few months later, she died of abdominal cancer.

Kathryn Schulz

#15. Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Lewis B. Smedes

#16. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.

Martin Pistorius

#17. It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

Cynthia Lewis

#18. Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.

Waylon Jennings