FastSaying

If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?


C.H. Hamel

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
THOMAS BROWNE The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
THOMAS EDWARD BROWN How dull life would be if we could not laugh at it, at ourselves -- but mostly at others!"
COREY BYRON FISH wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX We have to look at ourselves, ... The solution rests with us. We cant look to others to take care of...
ROBERT ATWELL If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
EILEEN BRENNAN People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can'...
EILEEN BRENNAN Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at...
WES ADAMSON It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
JIM BUTCHER Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
UNKNOWN It is OK to laugh at others ONLY if you can laugh at yourself, your faults, your imperfections first...
DIANA RAQUEL SAINZ When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
THOMAS SZASZ When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..
THOMAS SZASZ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
ED HOWE If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible worl...
JENA MALONE Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.
OSHO We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We tried to approach the whole thing with a bit of humor. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves.
JEFFREY BROWN If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
EDWARD W. HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
JILL CONNER BROWNE In future, you'll laugh at yourself on some things you do now.
TOBA BETA Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK That actually encourages us to feel that we are on the right track, that we are doing something diff...
FRED SAVAGE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
TIGER WOODS It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow o...
E. W. HOWE When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
ANONYMOUS When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
UNKNOWN Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
DILIP BATHIJA If you can't laugh at your own problems, call me and I'll laugh at them.
ANONYMOUS Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laug...
VIKRANT PARSAI You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are.
VIKRANT PARSAI Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
MARTIN PARR Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupie...
JOHN FAHEY Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
CRISS JAMI If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.
CHELSEA HANDLER We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD We casually laugh at things, but we do not realize how much a laugh contributes. We turn a blind eye...
LASHAN DIA GRAY As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.
JEFF DUNHAM Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at
LYN KAROL Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
WALT KELLY When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inesca...
BRYANT H. MCGILL Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation
KENYAN PROVERB Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.
SARU SINGHAL For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN We need humor badly. I think in a democracy we have the blessing of being able to laugh at our gover...
JUDY BERNSTEIN I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many o...
THEODORE HESBURGH There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
RICHARD PRYOR Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
JEFF ROSS Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a ban...
SHAH RUKH KHAN They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
KURT COBAIN You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because your all the same
ABDULLAH AHMAD You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace -...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. LEWIS And even I have got to laugh at me.
INDIGO GIRLS You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JOHN DAVIS You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
LEWIS CARROLL We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is ...
MARJANE SATRAPI if you laugh at pain than pain will laugh back so be wise about how you deal with pain
DELESHA SHANTAE BUFORD What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in adv...
STEPHEN KING The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca...
RUSSELL LYNES The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you c...
J. RUSSEL LYNES The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you ca...
J. RUSSELL LYNES If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
DEAN KOONTZ The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves...
WAYNE DYER Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
SALMA HAYEK Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
SALMA HAYEK Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
KAZI SHAMS To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's g...
FRANK TYGER The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN Others laugh behind my back, I laugh because I'm ahead.
MILAN STOJILOVIC If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we were...
JIMMY BUFFETT

More C.H. Hamel

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
C.H. SPURGEON For I've been born and I've been wed. All of man's peril comes of bed.
C.H. WEBB Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, ...
JULIAN C.H. FANE In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history o...
GARY HAMEL You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of ...
GARY HAMEL It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or ...
GARY HAMEL While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the rea...
GARY HAMEL Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
GARY HAMEL Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will b...
GARY HAMEL The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
GARY HAMEL As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless...
GARY HAMEL Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values suc...
GARY HAMEL At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them:...
GARY HAMEL As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Wh...
GARY HAMEL Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against i...
GARY HAMEL Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for politic...
GARY HAMEL I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every t...
GARY HAMEL I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many ma...
GARY HAMEL I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that re...
GARY HAMEL What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, ...
GARY HAMEL To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge ...
GARY HAMEL You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only...
GARY HAMEL A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
GARY HAMEL We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innov...
GARY HAMEL The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most ...
GARY HAMEL An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in...
GARY HAMEL An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's al...
GARY HAMEL Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and go...
GARY HAMEL Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religiou...
GARY HAMEL When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
GARY HAMEL During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of L...
GARY HAMEL Their goalie was great. We were peppering him but we couldn't get it in.
BRADLEY HAMEL We knew we had a good chance tonight.
BRADLEY HAMEL Burr and Burton is a good team, but we play strong against the good teams.
BRADLEY HAMEL I was just trying to throw it in front of the net and hit the back of his pad and went in. I guess i...
BRADLEY HAMEL The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others&...
GARY HAMEL Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of ...
GARY HAMEL A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - lik...
GARY HAMEL Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin Ame...
GARY HAMEL An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a ne...
GARY HAMEL To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employ...
GARY HAMEL In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or...
GARY HAMEL A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to m...
GARY HAMEL Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, h...
GARY HAMEL Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elabora...
GARY HAMEL It is a splendid year for the municipal industry.
CHRIS HAMEL There's no cure for it. All we can do is cut down the infected trees and hope it doesn't spread.
RON HAMEL In the case of citrus growers, I don't know how much we'll get when they start carving up that $200 ...
RON HAMEL I think we're a little premature. We don't know what we'll have with canker in eight to 10 months. I...
RON HAMEL A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy
GARY HAMEL **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**
That's right - the...
GARY HAMEL Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **...
GARY HAMEL ... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not crea...
GARY HAMEL All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the v...
GARY HAMEL It's great ... not every year do you get a chance to score 50 goals. This year, it seems like almost...
DENIS HAMEL In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is ...
GARY HAMEL Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost un...
GARY HAMEL Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovat...
GARY HAMEL As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countle...
GARY HAMEL Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these th...
GARY HAMEL There's no rule that just because you go to the buffet you have to eat yourself sick. If there's one...
MEG HAMEL With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable.
OCIAN HAMEL-SMITH