Top 23 Quotes About Backbiting
#1. If every man, ... ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
Grace Metalious
#2. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.
Jim Butcher
#3. Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#4. When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
Jenna Morasca
#6. The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#7. Do you think ... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
Voltaire
#8. Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.
Lysa TerKeurst
#10. As men & women of God we should not seek to expose the weaknesses of our brother or sister by gossiping, backbiting or slandering them however, we should cover them in prayer
Elder Walter S. Strong III
#11. Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,
I mean good-nature,
are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
John Dryden
#12. So he had done, believing in his youthful arrogance that everything would turn out all right for no other reason - yes, at bottom he had believed this - than that he was he, and ka must serve his love.
Stephen King
#13. The mission or ministry of backbiters is to bite you at the back. When they backbite you, move forward. If you turn back to talk back or fight them, you descend to their low class.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#14. Don't be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#17. Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. Success in SaaS depends on having a carefully designed customer centric sales organization that balances skills, processes, and tools.
Jacco VanderKooij
#19. What is the Heart?
A flower opening ...
Rumi
#20. Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Jim Brosnan
#21. I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.
Evangeline Lilly
#22. Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
Margaret Atwood
#23. This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.
Ishmael Beah
