Shame Quotes · Page 34

“There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.)”

— Dave Grossman

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

— Lance Armstrong

“The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Bernard Malamud

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— C.S. Lewis

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

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

— Rachel Sennott

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women…

— Germaine Greer

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of…

— Brennan Manning

For some people, loud advocacy of Trump helps to cover up the deep doubt and even shame they feel about their support…

— Anne Applebaum

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay…

— John Cheever

“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as…

— Franz Wright

“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she…

— Donna Lynn Hope

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,…

— Anonymous

“Even if I whispered, Blaz would hear and right now I didn’t want anyone to know. I already know, you twit. Hot…

— Shannon Mayer

When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because…

— John C. Maxwell

White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially…

— Jack Donovan

If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy?…

— Rachel Held Evans

I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the…

— Evie Wyld

Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you…

— Gerhard Richter

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or…

— Ben Harper

I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my…

— Henry Miller

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

— Samuel Richardson

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

— William Shakespeare

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mathieu Kerekou

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

— Ehsan Sehgal

That walk of shame when you fail at throwing a ball of paper into the trash bin...

— Anonymous

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

— Vincent de Paul

So you decide to make your stand. Step up and put the world to shame.

— Zendaya Coleman

Believe it or not, the worst thing to hear from your parents is 'I'm Disappointed in you.'

— Anonymous

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”

— Sophocles

“Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.”

— Scott Stabile