Admonish Quotes

• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Friends, Praise

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• True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

  John Ortberg

  Love Is, True Love Is, Willing

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• We are all called to initiate involvement in each other’s lives... We covenant together to work and pray for unity, to walk together in love, to exercise care and watchfulness over each other, to faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require, to assemble together, to pray for each other, to rejoice and to bear with each other, and to pray for God’s help in all this.

  Mark Dever

  Exercise, Unity, Together

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• Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Dedication, Causes, Sides

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• For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Dedication, Causes

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Sea, People, Example

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

  Plato

  May, Hostility

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• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Chaos, Stimulus And Response, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson, magnificent populist”, Devin-Adair Pub

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• Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivational, Running, Caring

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

  Keith Green

  Children, Play, Needs

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• Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hate, Intelligent

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dedication, Able, Temples

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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Selfish

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

  Thomas Dubay

  Humble, Views, People

  Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press

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• Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Death, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

  Agnes Repplier

  Mind, France, Habit

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• The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

  John Adams

  Country, Government, Growth

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.126

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• The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Ideas, Leader, Islam

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Son, Support

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wise, Wisdom, Brother

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• Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.

  Marian Bantjes

  Teacher, Real, Ideas

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• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.529, Wildside Press LLC

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