Shame Quotes

• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Weakness
  • Attract
  • Expose

• It doesn't matter if it's a playoff game or a regular-season game. The umpires have to keep control of the game. Tony was warned twice.... It's a shame, but those are the circumstances.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Control
  • Circumstances
  • Playoff game

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Shame
  • Critics

• There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

  

  Anne Sewitsky
  • Existence
  • Loved
  • Accepted

• When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it’s okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it’s okay to be who we are.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Mistakes
  • Punishment
  • Guilt

• It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Work
  • Man
  • Shame

• You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Done
  • Vote
  • Shame

• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Failure
  • Feelings
  • Cure

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

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Men
  • Common
  • Shame

• Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

  

  Chinelo Okparanta
  • Giving
  • Shame

• It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • People
  • Successful
  • Shame

• No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Shame
  • Misery
  • Privileges

• I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

  

  Roma Downey
  • People
  • Knows
  • Shame

• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Attitude

• Shame can be self-indulgence too.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Shame
  • Indulgence

• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Guilt
  • Misfortune
  • Prudence

• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Wisdom

• Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

  

  Michelle Dean
  • Thinking
  • Criticism
  • Argument

• Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Shame
  • Guilt

• Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Time
  • Eternity
  • Shame

• I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • World
  • Pain
  • Care

• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Painting
  • Smile

• The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Poverty
  • Shame
  • Actual

• The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Create

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