Shame Quotes

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

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.

The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

Shame is removed through love.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.