Ashamed Quote by Hosea Ballou

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

— Horace Mann

Repentance is for little children.

— Adolf Eichmann

Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be…

— William Gouge

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to…

— George Washington

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will…

— Timothy Keller

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

“There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves.…

— E.R. Braithwaite

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

— Fred G. Gosman

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and…

— Ashley Montagu

“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be…

— B.F. Skinner

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

— Honore de Balzac