Best 75 quotes in «disgrace quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

Your disgrace has become my grace.

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.

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

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

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

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.

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

To what will love not stoop!

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.

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

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.

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

After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

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

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his share of the wound that is given to the whole.

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.

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!