Shame Quotes · Page 55

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

— Chinua Achebe

“   23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.”

— Stephen Arterburn

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Anonymous

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

— Agnostic Zetetic

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jacqueline Susann

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our…

— Mike Bickle

Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,…

— Betty Dodson

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining,…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It's such a shame, and I'm so glad that now young…

— Viv Albertine

Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame…

— Valerie Jarrett

Hurt me once, shame on you. hurt me twice, shame on me. Hurt me three times, you better be able to be…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.…

— Michael Pollan

Low-budget movies is fine for me, I have no qualms about it, but when you want to do something - build a…

— Ti West

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret.…

— Derren Brown

As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even…

— Ted Danson

No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief;…

— Heber J. Grant

If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage…

— Brené Brown

“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no…

— Anna White

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a…

— Elie Wiesel

“If you could feel my sorrow and my shame. Know how I hate the things I have done--my sins, my failures, my…

— Willow Aster

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

— Martial

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

— Jock Sturges

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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

— Dirk Nowitzki

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

I definitely have shame and embarrassment, it's about the way I handle it.

— Rachel Sennott

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

— William Hazlitt

“She is not for you. She is a wild one--wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi".”

— Bernard Malamud

Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.

— Caterina Fake

“This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient.”

— C.S. Lewis

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

— Mathieu Kerekou

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

— Anonymous

“Shame does not have any effect on shameless or Shame does not have any effect on a shameless.”

— Ehsan Sehgal