These mistreat quotes will inspire you. Mistreat is to treat badly or treat (a person or animal) badly, cruelly, or unfairly.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mistreat quotes, mistreat sayings, and mistreat proverbs.
Famous Mistreat Quotes
- “One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.” ~ Socrates
- “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
- “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
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“Never, ever mistreat someone who loves you. Because you’re not entitled to that love.” ~ Caroline Myss
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.” ~ Bobby Bowden
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.” ~ Kirk Cameron
- “No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “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 , Mistreat quotes woman
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.” ~ Bo Burnham
- “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
- “While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor’s edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride’s father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride’s father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.” ~ Gregory David Roberts
- “I don’t yell at people, I don’t mistreat people. I don’t talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don’t tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It’s fairly sexy. Of course I don’t know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don’t burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
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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
- “If I can’t enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.” ~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- “Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.” ~ Philip Zimbardo
- “The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in “folk” and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying “consciousness,” however defined.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn’t God’s fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He’s given me.” ~ Jennifer Hudson
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“I’m just singing for the women who think they can’t speak out. Can’t a man alive mistreat me, ’cause I know who I am.” ~ Alberta Hunter
- “There are social and environmental impacts. You might be working with a factory that underpays its staff or mistreats its workers, or mishandles the dyes. I think that conscious fashion, fashion for our soul, needs to keep pushing that needle towards being better and more mindful.” ~ Maria Cornejo
- “The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “”What is honor?” “Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man’s gift to himself.” “Do women have it?” “Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in ’em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so.” “How do you know you have it?” “Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya’ and speaks to ya’. All ya’ need do is listen”.” ~ Rob Roy MacGregor
- “Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.” ~ Marc Bekoff
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“Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.” ~ Maria Teresa Horta
- “God teaches you to forgive people when they mistreat you. That’s something that we have to do as Christians, as children of God. It’s very hard to do. It’s very, very hard. When someone lies on you, when someone tries to ruin your reputation, because everyone knows what kind of person I am.” ~ Anthony Macias
- “It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.” ~ Lundy Bancroft , Mistreat quotes in relationship
- “He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.’ Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. ‘Good grief!’ He opened them again. ‘I was half hoping it wasn’t true. Have you any idea of the implications?’ ‘He was mistreating it!’ Pyrgus protested. ‘Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we’re talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don’t suppose you stole her as well?” ~ Herbie Brennan
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“You can beat her, but don’t mistreat her. Oh, don’t believe that woman please.” ~ Elton John
- “If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one’s duty toward one’s own subjects; for thus one exposes them to the law of retribution.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, ‘If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn’t be the problems that there are.’ In other words, ‘treat people the way you want to be treated.’ If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won’t make a right.” ~ Monte Irvin
