Mistreat Quotes

• One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

  Socrates

  Men, Matter, Return

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• Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Hurt, Speaking Up

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Independent, Pride

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• Never, ever mistreat someone who loves you. Because you're not entitled to that love.

  Caroline Myss

  Love You, Entitled

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To you who hear I say, love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,pray for those who mistreat you.To the person who strikes you on one cheek,offer the other one as well,and from the person who takes your cloak,do not withhold even your tunic.Give to everyone who asks of you,and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.Do to others as you would have them do to you.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Hate, Love You, Giving

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• The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Character, Parent

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.105, Macmillan

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• You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Fear, Indulge In

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.199, e-artnow

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• If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Nfl, Ems

  “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Practice, Abuse

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.329, Penguin Books India

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• Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Kindness, Men, People

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• One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Revenge, Ideas

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• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  Gary Coleman

  People, Want, Stealing

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• We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

  Evan Wright

  Military, America, Pits

  Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.22, Penguin

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• One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

  Tim McGraw

  Men, Domestic Violence, He Man

  "Tim McGraw Standing Up Against Violence", www.nashville.com.

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• No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

  Harvey Mackay

  Doors, Long, Treats

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• Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.

  Kirk Cameron

  Should, Homosexual, Mistreated

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• I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Hands, Guy

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• I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.

  Kenny Chesney

  Crazy, Guy, Temper

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• Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Baby, Want

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

  Alexis Arguello

  Sports, Boxing, Helping

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• It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong Women, Wife, Forgiving

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• Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

  Bo Burnham

  Bible, Jesus, Kindness

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

  David Attenborough

  Heart, Thinking, People

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