Shame Quotations | Page 9

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

Past all shame, so past all truth.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

O shame, where is thy blush?

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

The only shame is to have none.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures

I think that the entire country felt shame about what had happened,

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.

Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame

I just want to say shame on anybody for thinking that I was upset for not being able to get into a clothes store and buy a purse, ... Please, please.

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w

Gayle and I have said for years it's a shame other people couldn't be in on the conversation sometimes. It will be about what's going on in the world, and just us talking about it the way we talk about it, as girlfriends. . . . I think that Gayle and Oprah reality radio is going to be a huge hit.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Death to life is crown or shame.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

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

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Shame is pride's cloak.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

The gov­ern­ment had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.