Shame Quotes · Page 59

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 mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

“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

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the…

— Nabeshima Naoshige

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that…

— Abraham Cowley

“I once felt shame for the scars upon my skin. Unknowingly ignorant to the beauty they possessed. Those scars tell a story…

— Danielle Luz Matias

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I…

— Deepak Chopra

I do have a problem with developments that hyper-exploit politically vulnerable communities for profit. That it continues is a shame upon us…

— Majora Carter

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need…

— Pericles

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as…

— William P. Young

Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless…

— Oriah Dreamer

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up…

— Jane Swisshelm

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel…

— Sheila Walsh

“I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy,…

— Julian Barnes

My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes…

— Plutarch

I want to have my children, but I don't want to look like I have them. You're not really allowed to say…

— Frankie Bridge

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

— Brené Brown

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

— Wale

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

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

— Ore Abayomi

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

— James Gray

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

— Sydney Pollack

“We picked our noses as children in front of people without shame. Now we just do it in secret as adults.”

— Quinn Loftis

“Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?”

— Anna White

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

— Phyllis Schlafly

What a disgrace! Who do I feel sorry for? Smashed and raped! Not again. This is a real crime.

— Korn

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

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

— Jonathan Swift