Nagging

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 13, 1913

To correct the bad habits of others is often to form a bad habit yourself. A nagging disposition is natural to few; it comes from tired nerves or from supersensitiveness or from a too-free indulgence in sharp criticism, which is likely to lead a person into a minute and harassing scrutiny of the life about him. So long as criticism does not react unfavorably either on the critic or on the criticized, it is beneficial; but when it is accompanied by a sense of impatience in the one and of resentment in the other, it becomes nagging, and should be dropped.—Selected.