Top 100 Quotes About Constructive
#1. 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
#2. Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.
Robert Dallek
#3. It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me
just the usual.
Rivka Galchen
#4. Every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.
Louis De Bernieres
#5. Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Dale Carnegie
#6. Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes ...
Ralph Barton Perry
#8. In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
Dada Bhagwan
#9. we adopt an inclusive identity, we are more likely to see how other groups can help us and are more willing to receive constructive criticism from them.
Christena Cleveland
#10. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
#11. Vigilance is the proper, constructive concern for the well-being of others and for the advancement of God's Kingdom.[136] Anxiety, then, is vigilance that has lost sight of God.[137]
Heather Choate Davis
#12. Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
#14. Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
Jaron Lanier
#15. I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'Aguiar
#16. You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#17. The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
Alvar Aalto
#18. Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.
Shigeo Shingo
#19. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.
Sara Sheridan
#20. The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. He philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#22. Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma,tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.
Gregory S. Prince Jr.
#23. If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A.R. Rahman
#24. As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
Bell Hooks
#25. I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
Paul Farmer
#26. There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
Carl Rogers
#27. Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.
Jerome Frank
#28. The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.
Anonymous
#29. Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.
Myron Allen
#30. To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily.
Tony Dovale
#31. 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
#32. In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was wrong.
Edward De Bono
#33. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Fred Rogers
#34. My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.
Ephraim Mirvis
#35. The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.
Edgar Cayce
#37. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken
#38. One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.
Billy Graham
#39. When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.
Li Peng
#40. Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.
Paul Fry
#41. I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.
Brian Mulroney
#42. I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.
Joe Haldeman
#43. My meetings with many different sorts of people the world over have, however, helped me realize that there are other faiths, and other cultures, no less capable than mine of enabling individuals to lead constructive and satisfying lives.
Dalai Lama XIV
#44. Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
Barbra Streisand
#45. Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
Flannery O'Connor
#46. You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox
#47. I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
Warren Beatty
#48. I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.
Hassan Rouhani
#49. The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,
Tony Dovale
#51. I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!
Dascha Polanco
#52. I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
Tony Williams
#53. Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
Miriam Makeba
#54. Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#55. If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.
William J. Clinton
#56. Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
Tony Dovale
#57. I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My
Jimmy Carter
#58. The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
Rollo May
#59. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.
Ernest L. Boyer
#60. This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect - first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others.
William Ury
#61. Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Bruce Lee
#62. Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive.
Syun-Ichi Akasofu
#63. [On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
Janet Flanner
#64. Being a critic is easy.
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.
Haemin Sunim
#66. I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
Matthew McConaughey
#67. We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
Edward De Bono
#68. Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.
Martin Schulz
#69. I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it ... a sense of being constructive with that anger.
Dave Pirner
#70. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.
Assata Shakur
#71. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.
Dan Millman
#72. As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.
Dalai Lama
#73. 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
#75. Writing is a never ending journey for me - not only for my own comfort, but as a strong medium for encouraging a healthy process of constructive thinking among my readers
Debalina Haldar
#76. One who utters speech that isn't rough
But instructive and truthful
So that he offends no one,
Him I call Brahmin.
Anonymous
#77. If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?
Noam Chomsky
#78. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.
Gavin Extence
#79. Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
Jim Rohn
#80. To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.
Tony Dovale
#82. No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.
Byron Nelson
#83. Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.
Steven Rattner
#84. 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
#85. The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.
Gary Zukav
#86. The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.
John F. Kennedy
#87. Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
Jan Struther
#88. Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.
Vladimir Putin
#89. I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.
Herb Goldberg
#90. Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.
Tony Dovale
#91. Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. Encouragement is more constructive than criticism.
CARLA EVANS
#93. I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry
#94. The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
Paul Hoffman
#95. Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
Gretchen Rubin
#96. The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill ... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Li Ka-shing
#98. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
#99. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
Albert Einstein
#100. Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
