Browsing Topic Best Shame Quotes

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.

Sell. Don’t apologize for it and don’t be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you’ve earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn’t pay the rent.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

It’s a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they’ve demolished so many landmarks. It’s a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It’s a strange town, it’s this sprawling suburb, and then there’s a city, the old town.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

All men of goodwill have this in common – that our works put us to shame.

Child abuse is one of those issues that’s very difficult to talk about because it’s surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn’t help those kids in need out there who need support.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

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.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Guilt: I’m sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I’m sorry. I am a mistake.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable…If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Shame: We all have it. It’s that gremlin that says ‘I’m not enough.’ Or, if you’re feeling pretty confident,…’ooh, who do you think you are?’ Shame always has a seat.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it – it can’t survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy… When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.