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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

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

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

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

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.

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!

Your disgrace has become my grace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

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

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

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.

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

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

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

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

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

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

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

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

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.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.