Best 1275 quotes in «guilt quotes» category

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

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.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Guilt is the thief of life.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.