Humiliations Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game. — Alistair Cooke
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves;… — Alphonsus Liguori
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs… — Therese of Lisieux
Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations… — Christopher Ricks
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and… — V.S. Naipaul
Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. — Mike Aquilina
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we… — Jorge Luis Borges
As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations… — Vince Lombardi
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. — Simone Weil
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK. — Jennifer Gilmore
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. — Alice Munro
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadnâ€™t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… — Jorge Luis Borges

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