Guilty Quotes

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  You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

  Joel Osteen

  Defeated, Ashamed, Stay Motivated

  Joel Osteen (2011). “Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

  "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Past, Men

  Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

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• If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Punishment, Guilt

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Patanjali Yoga Sutras”, p.112, Arktos

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thieves, Firsts, Cry

  Source: russialist.org

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• Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

  Martin Luther

  Thinking, Sin, Should

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• The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Enthusiasm, Spirit

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Free Will, Not Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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• If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Association

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• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

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• To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt, Innocent, Spares

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 113, 1856.

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• When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 10, 2014

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• Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thankful, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 14, 2014

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thinking, Guilt, Shame

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

  Juvenal

  Peace, Knowing Who You Are, Mind

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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• You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Unhappy, May

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 13, 2011

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• Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Unhappy, Asylums

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• The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Humble, Pride, Winning

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