Shame Quotes

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

Shame is the root of all addictions.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

It's so simple just like that, 'cause it's a shame that where you're at isn't always where you really wanna be.

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.

You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

The only shame is to have none.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)