(24 quotes found)
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke”
William Feather
“And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? / And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.”
Bible
“We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar”
Publilius Syrus
“Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.”
Proverb
“Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.”
“O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.”
“Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.”
“Brain, v. [as in 'to brain']: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.”
