Shame Quotes

• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Kill
  • Autobiography
  • Self-destruction

• It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace. I’ve traveled some long roads simply to lessen the depth of some of my failures and addictions — just to get to a place where I can receive fresh grace and encouragement.

  

  Jeffery A. Cook Alabama
  • Struggle
  • Grace
  • Encouragement

• The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Shield

• Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Suspicion

• Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Nobody

• Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Human Nature
  • Offence
  • Nakedness

• Shame on you for staying the same.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • Same
  • Shame
  • Staying

• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Standards

• Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

  

  Bosie
  • Passion
  • Sweet
  • Shame

• Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.

  

  Mathieu Kerekou
  • Competition
  • Shame
  • Defeat

• The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hand
  • Sin
  • Crime

• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  

  George Eliot
  • History
  • Memory
  • Wound

• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hard

• It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Shame
  • Wash
  • Glued

• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Heart
  • Shame
  • Watch

• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • America
  • Together

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honest
  • Shame
  • Vanity

• Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Faults
  • Cunning

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Shame
  • Murder
  • Torture

• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  

  Epictetus
  • Shame
  • Engage
  • Current Situation

• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Restraint

• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  

  John Bevere
  • Giving
  • Grace
  • Guilt

• It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Chance
  • Grandmother
  • Manners

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