These harm quotes will inspire you. Harm, physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging harm quotes, harm sayings, and harm proverbs.
Best Harm Quotes
- “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~ Mark Twain
- “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.” ~ Hippocrates
- “If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one’s desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?” ~ Xunzi
- “There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.” ~ Donald Justice
- “At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.” ~ William Adams
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“What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
- “The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.” ~ Adrian Cronauer
- “There’s a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.” ~ Laurel Clark
- “I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.” ~ William Kidd
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“The harm done is often difficult to repair.” ~ Cat Stevens
- “Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.” ~ Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
- “If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can’t harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.” ~ Paula Rego
- “Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us” ~ Voltaire
- “Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.” ~ Robert Benchley
- “Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.” ~ John Muir , Harm quotes alone
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“Wizard’s Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.” ~ Terry Goodkind
- “The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.” ~ Norm Dicks
- “Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.” ~ John Muir
- “Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They’re part of my history that’ll always be there.” ~ Cheryl Rainfield
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“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” ~ Laozi
- “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.” ~ Barbara Mikulski
- “He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.” ~ Theodor Adorno
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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” ~ Hippocrates
- “When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” ~ Plato
- “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.” ~ John Stuart Mill
- “Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.” ~ Jackie Chan
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“Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.” ~ Epicurus
- “I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren’t able to.” ~ Margaret Cho
- “It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.” ~ Mary Douglas
- “Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.” ~ Garrett Hardin
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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.” ~ Stanley Kubrick
- “It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm’s way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.” ~ Dave Matthews
- “She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.” ~ Gilbert Parker
- “Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea’s capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.” ~ Zach Wamp
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“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.” ~ Jack Abramoff
- “Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.” ~ Bill Jenkins
- “I, for one, begin with intent. … There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.” ~ Tommy Franks
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“Where is the harm in the wireless industry?” ~ Steve Largent
- “They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.” ~ Andrea Mitchell
- “Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.” ~ Mitch Albom
- “Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.” ~ Voltaire
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“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.” ~ Paul Kagame
- “Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.” ~ T. S. Eliot
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“At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.” ~ Pema Chodron
- “I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.” ~ Paul R. Ehrlich , Harm quotes reduction
- “The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.” ~ William Kingdon Clifford
- “I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don’t understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.” ~ James Cameron
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“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.” ~ Elizabeth I
- “I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.” ~ Michael Jackson
- “The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.” ~ Nong Duc Manh