Looking for quotes on humiliation? We have rounded up the best collection of humiliation quotes, sayings, captions, and status messages, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to never humiliate anyone in person or public, as this may have a much adverse effect on one’s self-worth and self-respect.
Humiliation is a strong emotion and a negative one too. Anyone who is humiliated feels diminished in one’s own eyes or in the eyes of others. It may result in hurt and lower self-confidence.
Also See: Quotes About Being Humble
If you ever felt humiliated, and insulted by a friend, or someone you love, remember you can always be strong and overcome it. Never let it affect your inner belief and self-worth.
Humiliation Quotes And Sayings
- “Never humiliate anyone.” — Hans Blix
- “Art is born of humiliation.” — W.H. Auden
- “With publicity comes humiliation.” — Tama Janowitz
- “Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.” — Toni Morrison
- “Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.” — Hussain Ibn Ali
Humiliation Quotes Emotional Pain
- “Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.” — Tobsha Learner
- “Humiliation- The harder you try, the dumber you look.” — Unknown
- “Humiliation is a bitter medicine but it has healing effects.” — Unknown
Humiliation Quotes Images - “Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.” — John Donne
- “What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.” — Robert Wyatt
- “Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God’s Kingdom.” — Andrew Murray
- “One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.” — Gerry Adams
Public Humiliation Quotes
- “Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.” — Nigel Dennis
- “Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.” — John Guare
- “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.” — Elie Wiesel
- “No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.” — Bernard Baruch
- “You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” — Cesar Chavez
- “We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.” — Mother Teresa
- “Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.” — Chuck Palahniuk
when someone humiliates you quotes
- “To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.” — Dan B. Allender
- “Your worst humiliation is only someone else’s momentary entertainment.” — Karen Crockett
- “Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.” — Pascal Mercier
- “You will find that you survive humiliation. And that’s an experience of incalculable value.” — T. S. Eliot
Feeling Humiliated Quotes
- “One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.” — Immanuel Kant
- “Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.” — Chuck Palahniuk
- “Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.” — Janet Morris
- “Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.” — E M Cioran
- “Don’t give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.” — Paulo Coelho
- “In our society people die out of neglection, criticism and humiliation much before the actual kills them.” — Unknown
- “Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.” — William Tecumseh Sherman
- “Feeling of humiliation performs only two tasks, either demolish the self-esteem or kill the person…” — Unknown
- “It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.” — Cory Booker
- “Honesty is grounded in humility and, indeed, in humiliation, in admitting exactly where we are powerless.” — Terry Patten
- “You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbor.” — Henri Bergson
- “There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me ” — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- “Never forget the insults and humiliations you have faced, because that’s what’s going to be the fuel for your success.” — Unknown
- “There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.” — Nelson Mandela
Quotes About Humiliation
- “It’s always been a mystery to me how people can respect themselves when they humiliate other humans.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
- “If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.” — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
- “Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.” — Desmond Tutu
- “It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth.” — Unknown
- “The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored especially if we are humiliated.” — Desmond Tutu
- “We all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.” — Jane Stanton Hitchcock
- “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
- “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
- “It’s okay to dislike someone, or even dislike someone for no reason. But it’s not okay to disrespect, degrade, and humiliate that person.” — Unknown
- “Never humiliate anybody intentionally every individual has their own struggle. Struggle is meant to be appreciated, not humiliated.” — Lalit Nautiyal
- “You mustn’t compromise your principles, but you mustn’t humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.” — Nelson Mandela
- “People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honor you. People may judge you but God will justify you.” — Nicky Gumbel
- “As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.” — Ada Leverson
- “There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.” — Nivard Kinsella
- “We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.” — Dalai Lama
- “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
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