Shame Quotes

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you....you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

The shame would be if Democrats get thrown out of office without ever having tried Democratic policies.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.