Quotes About Being Preachy

#1. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Paul Butcher

#2. When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

Stephen King

#3. I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

Princess Superstar

#4. And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Patrick Dempsey

#5. Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Srikumar Rao

#6. I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#7. With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. Unsafe people will never identify with others as fellow sinners and strugglers, because they see themselves as somehow above all of that.

Henry Cloud

#9. Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughtered in vengeance. Where could it end? Babes growing to men knowing only days of war.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#10. The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

John Ruskin

#11. It's almost as important to know what you need to not do, as what you need to do. Actually it may be more important, since it may save you a great deal of effort and possible aggravation. This is where restraint comes in handy.

Art Hochberg

#12. With your own hands you can achieve much;
with God's hands you can achieve countless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#14. There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.

Brooke Burke

#15. Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.

Gary Weiss

#16. I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

Rivers Cuomo