Shame Quotes · Page 28

“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

— Bryant McGill

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me thrice we are unbreakable.

— Anonymous

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

— Martial

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

— Jacqueline Susann

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

— Jock Sturges

Not displaying your affection openly is a sign that you are ashamed of who you are with.

— Anonymous

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

— Dirk Nowitzki

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or…

— Herb Goldberg

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,…

— Freeman Dyson

“When we are exposed without any way to protect ourselves, we feel the pain of shame. If we are continually overexposed, shame…

— John Bradshaw

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I…

— David Mamet

“It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice…

— Omar Khayyám

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or…

— Alanis Morissette

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame,…

— Charlotte Brontë

I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with…

— Reza Aslan

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me…

— Anonymous

When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first…

— Cilla Black

“I shrugged uncomfortably, leaning my head against hers, almost forgetting Mr. Gardner’s presence as Mo and I fell into that sort of…

— Amelia C. Gormley

Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced…

— Marc David

Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I…

— Nicole C. Mullen

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Lloyd Banks

“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

— Thomas Day

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm going to kick your ass.”

— Lisa Roecker

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

— Henry Ford

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

— Corazon Aquino

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race?”

— Steve Toltz

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

— Brené Brown

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

— Marilynne Robinson

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

— Anonymous

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

— Anonymous

The worst part about being lied too, is feeling stupid you believed it.

— Anonymous

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you for making me beat your ass.

— Anonymous

“I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.”

— Gregory Maguire