Humiliation Quotes

• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Top Performance". Book by Zig Ziglar (p. 64), September 1, 2004.

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• We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

  Mother Teresa

  Humility, Accepting

  "Joy In Loving : Guide To Daily Living Wi". Book by Chaliha, March 1, 2003.

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Liberty, Wanted, Stills

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• You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

  T. S. Eliot

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Values

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.348, Faber & Faber

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

  John Donne

  Sanctification

  John Donne (2003). “One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne”, p.267, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Self, Risk, Readiness

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Hard Times, Who I Am

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• People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, People, Well Known

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

  Milan Kundera

  Mistake, Choices, Matter

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• Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

  Bell Hooks

  Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

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• When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

  Guillaume Musso

  Rocks, Deals, Bottom

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, School, Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

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• We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Humility, Judging

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• I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

  Ben Stiller

  Character, Comedy, Endure

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• This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Humility, Way

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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

  Sally Field

  Emotional, Emotion

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• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Roots, Hatred

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol A. Dingle, p. 40, January 1, 2000.

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• Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

  Ouida

  Giving, Guests, Welcome

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)”, p.141

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• Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

  Laozi

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  "Tao Teh King". Translated by Archie J. Bahm, 1996.

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• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  Fiona Apple

  Hurt, Feels, Disrespected

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