Best Damaging Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Even for most of the GOP's old-school legislators, there is dawning understanding that opposition to freedom to marry is on the wrong side of history and damaging to the long-term, and increasingly the short-term, prospects of the GOP, especially among independent-minded younger voters.”

“There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.”

“There's someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn't say anything damaging, I don't care. Let him get on with it.”

“I feel social media is so damaging to young people, I see it as being extremely dangerous.”

“Words matter. We've seen that with soaring impact, and we've seen it with tremendously damaging impact.”

“When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.”

“Social media can be incredibly damaging for impressionable people.”

“Yes, pro wrestling is damaging on your body. It hurts.”

“I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging thing to be told as a young kid.”

“If bad quarterback play is damaging to the XFL, I think it's damaging to any league at any level.”

“If I was 10st, I would look highly unattractive - it would be damaging to my body.”

“In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin.”

“I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.”

“I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.”

“My one thing is that I won't do the sun. I stay away. I will get a little and then come back inside. Being a dark-skinned woman, some people believe that I can go out and get as much sun as I want, but that's not true. It's damaging.”

“In every meeting that I take when I talk to executives and producers, I try to be as transparent about my feelings and about the roles and types of stories that I'd be willing to tell and those that I don't want to continue to give fuel to because I think that they're damaging.”

“It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.”

“Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.”

“Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.”

“People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.”

“With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.”

“It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.”

“It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.”

“My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.”

“If you talk about, say, 'Romeo and Juliet,' most people will think of it as a play about the highest form of romantic love. They won't realize that it is a horrible tragedy. And this notion of a soul mate is so damaging. That isn't love at all.”

“True brothers don't let other brothers go down this path of irreparably damaging another human being as well as their own lives.”

“If you know something damaging about a major political figure, then, in a democracy, it is surely your duty to tell the voters before they go to the polls.”

“I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.”

“A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.”

“I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I make the wrong move... I shoot for the stars. If I get the moon, I'm OK with that.”

“President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.”

“I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.”

“I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.”

“Weight is a number you can change but shaming one self is damaging and toxic.”

“Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.”

“American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.”

“The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.”

“Growing up as a young man you're often told, 'You shouldn't cry,' and 'Emotions are weakness.' I think that's so damaging and I genuinely think that if we raised young boys better we wouldn't have such a need for feminism.”

“The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.”

“I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn't go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.”

“I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.”

“Social media can be so damaging.”

“When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.”

“It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.”

“Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.”

“I believe that MPs from all parties must work together to prevent a damaging hard exit.”

“I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.”

“I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.”

“Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.”

“It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.”

“I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.”

“Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.”

“Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.”

“It's fun to gossip and stuff. But once it's millions of people - the scale of that, I think, is more damaging to the health of the people that are getting speculated about.”

“That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.”

“There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.”

“Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.”

“A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.”