Ashamed Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

— Victor Hugo

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

— Allen W. Wood

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

— Anonymous

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

— Lewis B. Smedes

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

— Rabindranath Tagore

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a…

— Antony Hegarty

The guilts no good, and it only shames us more

— Framing Hanley