Able Quote by Plutarch

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely…

— Annie Dillard

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

— Sophocles

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

— David Brooks

“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

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

— David Hare

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

— Brené Brown

In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And…

— Nicholas Grimald

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum