Top 115 Dishonor Quotes & Sayings

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

I come from a big family of brothers and sisters and family dramas and honor and dishonor.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

We are not going to surrender nor dishonor ourselves nor get on our knees whatever price we have to pay.

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

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Barack Obama wanted to applaud [Colin] Kaepernick. But he knew he couldn't do it. We haven't yet gotten to the point where the president can dishonor the country. A quarterback for the 49ers can, but we can't have the president do it yet.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.