Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

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

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

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

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

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

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

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

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

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.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy.

We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

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

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

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.

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

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.

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

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

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.