Shame Quotes · Page 37

A lot of people aren't aware of the years and years of humiliation and horrible shows I've played.

— Girl Talk

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

— Brené Brown

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

— Henning Mankell

“Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)”

— Scotty Smith

I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them.

— David Beckham

It's A shame When you think you are nothin' , do something for your name , you already have a name ,think about it

— Moa'taz El-Sherbeny

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

— Alex Tizon

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning…

— Sophocles

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of…

— Joanna Baillie

“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in…

— Johannes Kepler

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would…

— Stephen Fry

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying…

— Emily Mortimer

The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you…

— Brené Brown

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the…

— James Russell Lowell

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts…

— Serge Schmemann

Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning,…

— Kenneth Cloke

Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of…

— John Bradshaw

“How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my…

— Anonymous

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to…

— Jenny Lawson

Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical…

— Marielle Heller

“No shame,” he said firmly. “I don’t knows why ye feel ye must be shamed for it.” Tears sprang unbidden to Ava’s…

— Jenycka Wolfe

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down…

— Libba Bray

To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be…

— Andre Vltchek

You're like a gun. You just load me all up, then you shoot me and get rid of me.

— Simone Munton

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.”

— Habeeb Akande

“Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

— Dennis E Adonis

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

— Denis Diderot

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

— Jonathan Swift

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

— Anthony Weiner

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

— Gregor Mendel

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

— Brené Brown

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I think it's a shame that all we talk about is the one-and-done players.

— Tom Izzo

“We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.”

— Anthony Liccione