Famous quotes about shame

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride than shame.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
- Horace Mann

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.
- Willard Gaylin

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
- Helen Keller

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
- Sophocles

To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.
- John Bradshow

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
- Blake Edwards

Shame is not what other people can do to you, instead it is what you let it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
- Marcus Garvey

My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.
- William Shakespeare

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!
- Arthur Schopenhauer

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- Charles Dickens

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
- Craig Thompson

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

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
- George R.R. Martin

Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.
- Deepak Chopra

Shame is probably the hardest emotion to sit with, to express. People go out of their way -- people drink themselves to death, people will murder -- not to feel shame. It's that much of a kicker.
- Rick Goodwin

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

Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.
- Marilyn J. Sorensen