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Letter "D" » disgraceful
«It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
ceaseless, cipher, cost of living, derives, disgraceful, factor, factor in, recognition, worthily
«Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
bettering, devoid, devoid of, die down, disgraceful, enriching, ideals, lay down, mortal, mortal man, resolve, self respect, slaves
«An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Autobiography,
Life
| Keywords:
account, autobiographies, defeats, disgraceful, reveals, series, trusted, viewed
«Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful»
«Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(Mystic, Poet)
| Keywords:
absent, absents, badly, disgraceful, minded, sober, The Lover
«Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child is»
Author: Juvenal
| Keywords:
disgraceful
«When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Adventure,
Bravery,
Courage,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
adventures, disgraceful, run away, The Mark, The Mark of
«Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
animal, baboon, baboons, belong to, claiming, cowed, cows, disgraceful, Shakespeare, single-mindedness, species, very well
«For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
caused, contemptible, disarmed, disgraceful, guard, prince, renders
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