Reproach Quotes
126 Reproach quotes by 108 unique authors
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The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man,…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
— Oscar Wilde
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Knight without fear and without reproach.
— Richard Harris
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
— Kate Smith
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been…
— Chief Seattle
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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have…
— Charles Dickens
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't?…
— Ronald Reagan
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If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of…
— Mordecai
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What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley
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The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit…
— George Will
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How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a…
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study…
— Elihu Root
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I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to…
— Stevie Smith
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I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am…
— Eugene Delacroix
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If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
— Jupiter Hammon
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If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
— Kojo Annan
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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those…
— Charles Horton Cooley
Who Wrote These Reproach Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 126 Reproach Quotes, led by these top contributors: