quotes about Humiliation
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
-- Ben Stiller -
The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
-- Benjamin F. Wade -
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
-- Cesare Pavese -
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
-- Dan B. AllenderSource : Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.70, WaterBrook
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Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.
-- George H. Brimhall -
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One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
-- Gerry AdamsSource : "Collaboration 2. 0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful". Book by Gerry Adams. Happy About, p. 93, January 1, 2008.
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When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.
-- Guillaume Musso -
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
-- Henning Mankell -
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 -
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
-- Jack Welch -
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
-- James Buchan -
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
-- James Richardson -
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
-- John GuareSource : John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press
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I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
-- Judd Apatow -
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
-- Khaled MashalSource : Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, Al-Jazeera TV, February 3, 2006.
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No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
-- Marian Keyes -
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Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
-- Mathieu Kerekou -
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
-- Mel Gibson -
Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,
-- Monica LewinskySource : "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.
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There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
-- Monica Lewinsky -
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
-- Mother Teresa -
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
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It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.
-- Pascal MercierSource : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.222, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
-- Penelope Keith -
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Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.
-- Pierce Brosnan -
There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
-- Pranab MukherjeeSource : Acceptance Speech on Assumption of office as President of India, pib.nic.in. July 25, 2012.
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I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.
-- Rachel -
What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
-- Robert Wyatt -
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I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.
-- Sally Field -
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
-- Tama JanowitzSource : 1992 In the International Herald Tribune, 8 Sep.
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I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.
-- Len Smith -
I would rather a sex tape make its way out than a video of me doing all of the different grunt sounds. I'm not eager for a sex tape to leak, but in terms of personal humiliation, I'd feel less vulnerable to be in a Kim Kardashian situation than seeing myself grunting in a booth.
-- Zach Woods -