29 Best Gossip Quotes To Motivate You

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Not all gossip causes harm. There are some gossips that strengthen social bonds and help resolve conflicts. We can use it to improve social norms. Positive gossip includes prosocial behaviors that increase group cooperation and reduce self-interest. Gossip also has great destructive powers. Some people use gossip to their advantage. This can sometimes trigger anger, shame, and resentment. In which hostility can arise. Here are some best inspirational quotes about gossip that will help you to know more about it.

Best Quotes About Gossip

1. “Rumour has a hundred mouths.” ― Paul Verlaine

2. “Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.” ― Steve Maraboli

3. “Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.” ― Anna Godbersen

4. “Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren’t THAT mean.” ― Nicholas Sparks

5. “One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.” ― Suzy Kassem

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6. “Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.” ― Dianne Sylvan

7. “Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.” ― L.M. Montgomery

8. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

9. “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” ― Socrates

10. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ― Marie Curie

11. “Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.” ― Shannon L. Alder

12. “Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.” ― Booth Tarkington

13. “Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.” ― Robert Greene

14. “Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.” ― Oscar Wilde

15. “The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.” ― Margaret Mitchell

Famous Gossip Quotes

16. “Rumours travel faster than the speed of light.” ― Sukant Ratnakar

17. “Often people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.” ― Shannon Alder

18. “Rumor travels faster, but it doesn’t stay put as long as truth. ” ― Will Rogers

19. “No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..” ― Cecily von Ziegesar

20. “Conspiracy theories and viral falsehoods are probably as old as language.” ― Steven Pinker

21. “Gossip was like malaria, highly contagious, and eternal in the body.” ― Leah Franqui

22. “Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

23. “Free your life from the fangs of gossip by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

24. “Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

25. “Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.” ― Miranda Kenneally

26. “Gossip’s like jam; it won’t bear fruit if you don’t spread it.” ― Jan Watson

27. “Rumours are always started for a reason, but that doesn’t always mean the reason is truth.” ― Broms The Poet

28. “Gossip is zombie-speak. You never hear it from people who are alive inside.” ― Steve Maraboli

29. “Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you’ll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson