Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It hasn’t always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have.
Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
Don’t Gossip Quotes
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
The more drastic action is to remove all those social media apps that do not provide benefits to your life, to your well-being or to your freedom of mind. This means that you remove, delete in fact, any social media application that does not meet your definition of being free from those who simply love to gossip, those who ask inappropriate questions, those who live each day focusing on social media rather than what I call real meaningful person to person exchanges, and from those who seem to spend their time devoted to the negativity around them rather than contributing to the positive aspects of life.
Nothing productive is ever achieved as a result of spreading, or listening to gossip. Don’t waste your time! You can make more productive use of it.
Not allowing yourself to get dragged into gossip and talking behind people’s backs can be a challenge but is essential as part of the master plan. It is one of the Ten Golden Rules.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart.
Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary – and remember that God is listening while you tell it.
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
