Browsing Topic Best Shame Quotes

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

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.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

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.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

It’s a shame to call somebody a ‘diva’ simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Nothing inhibits healing like shame.

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!

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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.

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

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

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?

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don’t say anything bad. Don’t be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

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.

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

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.

Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

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.

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

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

Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.

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

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

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

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

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