Best 75 quotes in «disgrace quotes» category

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.

Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.

Only the Supreme Being_Allah is Perfect! For humans intention of being a perfectionist can cause sudden downfall and disgrace even below average.

There is no disgrace in being knocked down, there is only shame in not getting back up; never quit!

The career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, draws such questions to a focus that resembles the bead of a laser-gunsight on a victim’s breastbone. It was Oppenheimer whom the public lionized as the brains behind the bomb; who agonized about the devastation his brilliance had helped to unleash; who hoped that the very destructiveness of the new “gadget,” as the bombmakers called their invention, might make war obsolete; and whose sometime Communist fellow-traveling and opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb — a weapon a thousand times more powerful than the bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki — brought about his political disgrace and downfall, which of course have marked him in the eyes of some as all the more heroic, a visionary persecuted by warmongering McCarthyite troglodytes. His legacy, of course, is far more complicated.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.

The wise are greatly revered, the righteous are exceedingly honored, and the foolish are repeatedly disgraced.

The telling of a lie is not only a sin or disgrace; it is the beginning of a disorder in the soul set in by the puncturing from a spear coated by guilt

Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind must be attached to an empty sound, when every day's experience proves that birth is disgraced, titles rendered contemptible, and riches a curse, by the vices, meanness, and dissipation of its possessors!

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

Your disgrace has become my grace.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

To what will love not stoop!