Guilt Quotes · Page 20

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't lose sleep over things you cannot change! Wash away guilt - it's not worth it.

— Denise Austin

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

— Caryl Rivers

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

— Gregory Maguire

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

— Dave Ramsey

“Guilt and blame grew defuse when memory covered a millennia.”

— Frank Herbert

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

— Joseph Prince

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have…

— Richelle Mead

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing…

— Lillian Hellman

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as…

— Lord Byron

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the…

— A. E. Housman

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've…

— Jean Dujardin

Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real…

— Wendy Keller

“What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives…

— Michael Connelly

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

— John Suckling

“It doesn't matter what the manifest problem was in our childhood family. In a home where a child is emotionally deprived for…

— M. Catherine Thomas

To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He…

— John Stott

There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or…

— Jo Swinson

Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on…

— Monica Lewinsky

“After a decade of research, I found that men and women with high levels of shame resilience share these four elements: They…

— Brené Brown

The whole guilt thing of not feeling Mexican enough was a big deal, too. On the one hand, you have your grandmother…

— Matt de la Pena

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“To guard against the intolerable feeling of shame, we may fold ourselves up and hide in the darkest corner. We may apologize…

— Harriet Lerner, Ph.D

“I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.”

— Kiersten White

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

— Juvenal

“Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.”

— Barbara Nickless

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

— Hillary Clinton

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

— Mason Cooley

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

— Deepak Chopra

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

— Margaret Oliphant

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

— Robert Breault

“...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us”

— Thomas Mann

Self-forgiveness following guilt is self-essential to esteem, which is key to enjoying life and relationships.

— Senoraroy

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

— Chris Harris

“Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.”

— J.D. Robb

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

— Horace

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

— Linda Cardellini

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

— Charles Spurgeon