Disgrace Quotes

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

To what will love not stoop!

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

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

It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

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

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

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

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

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

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

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

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

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

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