Ill Will Quotes

• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, People, Understanding

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Thinking, Sick

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Tasks, Hardest

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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Happiness, Lonely

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• When I observe myself and find that I am generating anger, ill will, or animosity, I realize that I am the first victim of the hatred or animosity I am generating within myself. Only afterwards do I start harming others. And if I am free from these negativities, nature or God Almighty starts rewarding me: I feel so peaceful.

  S. N. Goenka

  Hatred, Negativity, Peaceful

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• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Anger, Character

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

  Aristotle

  Parenting, Evil, Wickedness

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• Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Rooms, Havens, Good Will

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• It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Time, People, Silence

  "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings".

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• There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Used, Has Beens

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Evil, Meditation

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• For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fate, Endurance, Decree

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Years, Hatred, Devotion

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

  Mason Cooley

  Sloth, Literature, Unjust

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• Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  War, Men, Evil

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• The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, World, Morality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

  Nat Hentoff

  Hate, Thinking, Rights

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Self, Justice

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Moving, Painful Feelings

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• People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Understanding, Good Intentions

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