Ashamed Quotes

• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Tears
  • Hearts

• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  

  Milarepa
  • Meditation
  • Acquire
  • Uncertain

• Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meditation

• Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Sadness

• "Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Leaving
  • Catholicism

• You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Reason

• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Women
  • Poor
  • Grace

• If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

  

  Neill F. Marriott
  • Ashamed
  • Atonement
  • Quietly

• You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.

  

  William Hughes Mearns
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Way

• You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Constitution
  • Bills
  • Guarantees

• You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Answers
  • Might
  • Failing

• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Childhood
  • Ashamed
  • Sanity

• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Snob

• Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Forget
  • Sorry
  • Confessed

• I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Lifestyle

• I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Night
  • Left
  • Paychecks

• I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Believe
  • My Life

• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  

  Socrates
  • Money
  • Reputation
  • Concerned

• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Pride

• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Home
  • Ashamed
  • Miserable

• And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long
  • Way
  • Ashamed

• Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Give
  • Ashamed
  • Deceive

• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • True
  • Guilty
  • Innocence

• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  

  William Morris
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Flower

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