Injury Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old injury quotes, injury sayings, and injury proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius
Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. Shawn Johnson
They do injury to the good who spares the bad. Publilius Syrus
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope
There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. Steve Perry
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. Lewis B. Smedes
If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it. Joel Parkinson
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. Khalil Gibran
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. Michel de Montaigne
Moral Injury is differentiated from PTSD in that it directly relates to guilt and shame veterans experience as a result of committing actions that go against their moral codes. Therapists who study and treat moral injury have found that no amount of medication can relieve the pain of trying to live with these moral burdens. Chuck Norris
Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble. Troy Polamalu
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. Rebecca West
Woe to the man who offends a small child! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain. Stephen M. Irwin
I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing. Tobe Hanson
A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond. Benjamin Franklin
Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid. Friedrich Nietzsche
Never do an enemy a small injury. Niccolo Machiavelli
Pain is weakness leaving the body. Tom Sobal
Where there is injury let me sow pardon. Francis of Assisi
Let's hear your evidence, not your legal muscle. Frank Frizelle
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. John Stuart Mill
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. Aesop
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. Leonard Cohen
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. Booker T. Washington
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. Aesop
An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery. Conor McGregor
Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. Troy Vincent
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. Charles Caleb Colton
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury. Mark Z. Danielewski
Injuries are our best teachers. Scott Jurek
It is better to take many injuries than to give one. Benjamin Franklin
When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls. Anonymous
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him. Edgar Watson Howe
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. Caius Caecilius Secundus
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. Howe
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? Camus
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury. Eliot
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. Mahatma Gandhi
An injury unanswered, in time grows weary of itself and dies away in voluntary remorse. In bad dispositions, capable of no restraint but fear, it has a different effect; the silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second. Laurence Sterne
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience: hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple. Cotton Mather