Ashamed Quotes

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

Believe in yourself. Pick a path that you, deep down in your soul, won't be ashamed of.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.