Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless

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

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

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.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

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

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

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.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

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.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

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

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 — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

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

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.