Offended You Quotes

• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

  Harriet Nelson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgive And Forget

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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Choices, Mean Spirited, Conditions

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them" by David A. Bednar, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Views, Giving, Want

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Democrats". Book by Martin Higgins, p. 93, 2006.

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• God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Names, Long

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• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Anger, Opportunity

  "Stand on your own two feet" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Expression, Absolute Freedom

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Grief, Time Heals

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.85, tredition

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• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

  Mark Twain

  Respect, Life Changing, Life Lesson

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.29.

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• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Easy, Offended

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Wish, Enmity

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• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Lakers, Acknowledgement, Contribution

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• These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

  Marco Rubio

  Views, America, People

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Godly, Agony

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Wish, Proud, Labels

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• I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

  Billy Connolly

  Differences, People, Lines

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

  Jerome Corsi

  Apology, Apologizing, Said

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• I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

  Kenny G

  Song, Play, People

  "Kenny G is 55: A “Chirpy” Interview From 2002". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. 2002.

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• If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

  Noam Chomsky

  Offending, People, Ought

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• If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Hurt, Let It Go

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 11, 2016

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