Disgrace Quotes - Page 2

• It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Stars, Goals And Life, Reaching Goals

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

  Hesiod

  Idleness

  Hesiod, Thomas Alan Sinclair (1966). “Works and Days”, p.29, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Agnes Smedley

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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• At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Player, Better Person

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• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Doe, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

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• Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Doe, Women's Beauty, World

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

  Socrates

  Workout, Bad Ass, Men

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• Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Despair, Relax, Steel

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

  Ouida

  Poison, Hedgerows, Beard

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.444

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• He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Home, Humility, Doe

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Song, Lying, Air

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.4, Random House

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• The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

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• For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Men, Ideas, Use

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  A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Voting, Politics, American Revolution

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.105, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Humble, Humility

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.55, New World Library

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• (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Simple, Generosity, Guilt

  "Disgrace". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2000.

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• Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hate, Thug, Race

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

  Plutarch

  Men, Evil, Age

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.223

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• However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Thinking, Clouds

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Fall, New Beginnings

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

  Plautus

  Character, May

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• It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

  Josh Billings

  Lying, Fall, Men

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