Shame Quotes · Page 51

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

— Brené Brown

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

— Sophocles

For the price of fame. What would you do to have them say your name? It is such a shame.

— Wale

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

— Brené Brown

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

— William Langland

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

— Blake Edwards

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

— Brennan Manning

“Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of…

— Volatalistic Phil

I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame…

— Sappho

Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome.…

— Ouida

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once…

— William Shakespeare

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.…

— Lewis Hyde

“Every once in a while, sudden soreness triggered a twinge of discomfort and shame. Whoever said the soul and the body met…

— André Aciman

“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make…

— L. E. Maxwell

I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Hey…you okay?” Marlboro Man repeated. My heart fluttered in horror. I wanted to jump out of the bathroom window, scale down the…

— Ree Drummond

You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All…

— Ilona Andrews

I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of…

— William Wilberforce

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians…

— George Crook

One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In…

— David Saint-Jacques

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…

— C. S. Lewis

The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to…

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

Humility is rewarded with honor, but disgrace follows the proud around.

— Ore Abayomi

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

— Johann Most

“The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.”

— Oscar Wilde

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

— Patricia McCormick

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

— James Weldon Johnson

“There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.”

— Julie-Anne

I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.

— NikkieTutorials

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

— John Owen

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

— Gilbert Baker

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

— Laurence Sterne

It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.

— Dov Davidoff

It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.

— Keren Woodward

Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

— George W. Bush

“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

— Fredrik Backman