Shame Quotes · Page 31

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

— Seneca the Younger

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

— Anna Held

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

— Michelle Malkin

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

— William H. Ginsburg

“There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.”

— Virginia Aird

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”

— Anonymous

“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.”

— Cathy Maxwell

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

— Iyanla Vanzant

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of…

— Confucius

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in…

— Bernard de Mandeville

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being…

— Vivek Murthy

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a…

— Marianne Faithfull

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my…

— Niall Horan

“The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards…

— Michael Ignatieff

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've…

— Kate Winslet

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To…

— Jane Austen

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you…

— Marjane Satrapi

“S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C:…

— Chris Kraus

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness…

— Anonymous

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with…

— Maura Tierney

“I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame…

— Imre Kertész

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

We are constantly dealing with the embarrassment of being alive.

— Ayo Edebiri

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.

— David Furnish

Pathetic isn't something I would normally call myself, but looking back I'm ashamed at how blind I really was.

— Anonymous

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

— Mark Twain

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

— Dick Gregory

“It's a terrible shame he's a Renegade, isn't it? Otherwise, you could have asked him to stay for dinner.”

— Marissa Meyer

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

— Jack Hunter

You were never created to live depressed, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be Victorious.

— Anonymous

“Twas a shame a man who looked like that ever had to wear a shirt.”

— Margaret Mallory

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life..

— Anonymous

Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

— Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

“I will not be guilted or shamed into being something I am not.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

— Rebecca Walker

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

— Edith Wharton

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

— Leslie Jamison