Shame Quotes

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

Say the truth and shame the devil.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Shame is the shadow of love.

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.