These disgrace quotes will inspire you. Disgrace loss of reputation or respect as the result of a dishonorable action; or bring shame or discredit on.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging disgrace quotes, disgrace sayings, and disgrace proverbs.
Famous Disgrace Quotes
- “Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant
- “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
- “The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.” ~ Stephen Ambrose
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“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.” ~ Donald Trump
- “How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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.” ~ Peter Stone
- “At Munich, we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.” ~ F. L. Lucas
- “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.” ~ Pierre Corneille
- “New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it’s a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.” ~ Andrew Cuomo
- “Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.” ~ Plautus
- “I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.” ~ Davy Crockett
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“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.” ~ Milton Berle
- “We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.” ~ Horace
- “At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.” ~ Earl Blumenauer
- “It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.” ~ Colin Powell
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“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.” ~ Pierre Corneille
- “I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.” ~ Lucius Accius
- “My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.” ~ Horatio Nelson
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“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough”(72).” ~ J. M. Coetzee
- “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
- “It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.” ~ Chanakya
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“There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Yes, I’m a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things… I say, don’t live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.” ~ Payne Stewart
- “We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best.” ~ Jim Palmer
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“The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.” ~ Xunzi
- “He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.” ~ Hesiod
- “Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.” ~ Plautus
- “Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “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
- “No one can disgrace us but ourselves.” ~ Josh Billings
- “Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.” ~ Vittorio Alfieri
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“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” ~ Hesiod
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.” ~ Christopher Fry
- “I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune’s power” ~ Thomas Willis
- “To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.” ~ David Hare
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“A lot of people are upset that I’m not working. They say it’s a disgrace.” ~ Marcel Carne
- “Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?” ~ Robert Walpole
- “Dishonor is like the Aaron’s Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.” ~ Ouida
- “The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!” ~ Edmund Burke
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“It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.” ~ George Madison Adams
- “Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?” ~ William Cowper
- “New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.” ~ Andrew Cuomo
- “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.” ~ Katherine Anne Porter
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“Call no man happy until he is dead.” ~ Solon
- “Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “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
- “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
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“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- 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
- “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 nothing.” ~ J. M. Coetzee
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“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “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
- “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” ~ Mother Teresa
Disgrace embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behavior that causes this.
