Ashamed Quote by Victor Hugo

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

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

— Francois de 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

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

— David D. Burns

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look…

— Jonathan Tropper

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

— Ed Stoppard

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

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