Shame Quotes

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

There is no shame in impulse.

It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

Great Spirit, When we face the sunset when we come singing the last song, may it be without shame, singing 'it is finished in beauty, it is finished in beauty!'

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

The worst pain in the world is shame.

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

Losse embraceth shame.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.