Best 198 quotes in «ashamed quotes» category

Truth hurts only when you’re ashamed of it…which is why most people think the truth hurts.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Victims”, by definition, are those that have just experienced a trauma of some sort. They are going through an entire array of emotions and circumstances that are happening to them internally and/or externally. They are trying to wrap their mind around what just happened to them. They are trying to regain some sort of balance in their mind. They feel violated, cheated, confused, scared, insecure, ashamed, guilty, impotent and at a loss for words/actions/thoughts. Many times, they even feel numb and in shock. Their mind is in a state of crisis and chaos. They are in the “victim stage”. They are truly a “victim” by definition.

Watching corrupt corporate governments destroy the global environment makes me ashamed to be human.

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.

Watching corrupt corporate controlled governments willfully damaging the next generation makes me ashamed to be human.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others’) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001 Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

What happened after that, and will be related later, was something entirely unexpected and so awful that Ludens had never spoken about it afterwards to anyone.

When I was hired from Europe to work atop Mauna Kea, I had no idea how sacred the mountain was to the Hawaiians. Today, I am ashamed that I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called. "On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.

You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. Read as if its your story, search your character in it. You should never read a book, if you feel ashamed of telling its story... Respect book or never read it.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

I am ashamed of my nation.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.