Shame Quote by Desmond Tutu

“I’ve gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right…

— Allie Brosh

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”

— Gregory Boyle

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame…

— Robert Redford

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

— Candace Bushnell

“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our…

— Jeff Brown

“It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an…

— Lionel Shriver

“Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.”

— Marilyn J. Sorensen

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.”

— Peter N. Stearns

“That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but some kind of arrow, it’s pointing at…

— Leslie Jamison

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem,…

— Sharon Salzberg