Disgrace Quotes
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Lao Tzu -
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
Confucius
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When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.
Anthony Swofford -
America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.
Jimmy Webb -
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke -
“It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!”
Wladyslaw Szpilman -
But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
Bliss Perry -
It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
George Madison Adams
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A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
Caroline Norton -
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Sophocles -
The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
Emily Dickinson -
Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.
Celestine Sibley -
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith -
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
Lao Tzu
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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
Lao Tzu -
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Mother Teresa -
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly.
Brandon Mull -
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud -
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
John Murray -
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.
Wallace Tripp
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
Cathy Rigby -
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset -
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
Rick Atkinson -
Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.
John Popper