Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. George Washington

• manners
• gossip

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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Frank Clark

• gossip

Who gossips to you will gossip of you. Anonymous

• gossip

Never build yourself up by tearing another down. Larry Winget

• bragging
• gossip

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Be trustworthy. Be the person who can keep a secret, isn't a gossip, and can be counted on in all situations. Larry Winget

• trust
• gossip

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I will laud my enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Og Mandino

• people skills
• gossip
• praise
• encouragement
• criticism
• friends

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Hyman Rickover

• mind
• ideas
• intelligence
• gossip

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. Edward Hoch

• gossip

What could be more foolish than a man's being afraid of people's words? Seneca

• talk
• gossip

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Gossipers say behind your back what they won't say to your face. Flatterers say to your face what they won't say behind your back. Don Meyer

• gossip

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads — often theories that are critical of others — that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation. I learned to hate this because I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity (saying the same things as one believes) and to despise the lack of it. Ray Dalio

• integrity
• gossip

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Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole. Ray Dalio

• gossip

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