Top 100 Never Ashamed Quotes
#1. The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.
Donald Miller
#2. I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.
Natalie Goldberg
#3. Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.
Mary Norris
#5. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
#6. Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.
Betty Smith
#7. A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one ...
Jaimy Gordon
#8. I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
Cherie Blair
#9. Malkin concluded with this advice for parents: Be "prudes." Be "rude." Be "shrill." And never, ever feel ashamed for asking out loud, "Have you no shame?"[30]
James C. Dobson
#10. Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.
Larry Niven
#11. I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
Marianne Faithfull
#12. An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant McGill
#13. What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
Tyler Perry
#14. Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.
Demi Lovato
#15. I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That's what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can.
Hope Solo
#16. You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.
Mr. T
#17. 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
#18. I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.
Alice Pung
#19. Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Booker T. Washington
#20. 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
#21. I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed to go, or afraid to speak, anywhere.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#22. You made it; your get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. Never be timid about your own pleasure. Don't be ashamed to come.
Abigail Barnette
#24. Never be ashamed!There's some who'll hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.
J.K. Rowling
#25. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That's what I am and that's what I'll always be from. I was never running away from it.
Katy Perry
#26. I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
Randy Bachman
#27. Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.
Steven James
#28. In my entire life, I've never managed to do anything that I've truly been ashamed of.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. Never be ashamed of what or how you feel ... just be honest.
Jaimie Alexander
#30. I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
Evan Hunter
#31. He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.'
~pg 139
Mitch Albom
#32. He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.
John Boyne
#33. I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.
Art Alexakis
#34. The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
#35. I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon Ramsay
#36. Someone once said to me, 'never be ashamed of the things you love'.
Mike Freeman
#37. Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything.)
Angela Kiss
#38. A soul mate must be one to whom you can tell your dark secrets and never feel ashamed and someone in whose arms your instincts are unashamed.
Dew Platt
#39. Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.
Gena D. Lutz
#40. Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, "We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up.
Karen Gammons
#41. Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. they just had big bones rather than stand up an' say - I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.' An' he was right. I've bin an idiot. I'm not botherin' with
J.K. Rowling
#43. Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. It only shows you are smarter today than you were yesterday.
Marilyn Taylor Klam
#44. I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.
J.K. Rowling
#45. They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.
Guy De Rothschild
#46. There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.
Mickey Rooney
#47. Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.
Alison Croggon
#48. Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Carolyn Wells
#50. Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
Burt Bacharach
#51. I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation.
Seneca.
#52. I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won't all come true; we won't always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.
Tommy Douglas
#54. Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot
#55. I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
Joshua Foer
#56. Never be ashamed to accept a gift when there are no strings attached.
Sylvain Reynard
#57. My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
Vash Young
#58. Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
John Wayne
#59. Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.
Portia De Rossi
#60. It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Natalia Makarova
#61. I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own
Carrie Brownstein
#62. I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.
Lawrence Kudlow
#63. The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#64. I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
Oliver North
#65. I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.
Mason Cooley
#66. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Ashly Lorenzana
#67. I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
Lauryn Hill
#68. I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
Claude Monet
#69. Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires ... never make her hold back. - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)
D.N. Simmons
#70. Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
L.M. Montgomery
#71. There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.
Chaske Spencer
#72. Never be afraid to tell me anything," he whispered against her hair. "No matter how ashamed you might feel. I'll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.
Maya Banks
#73. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Leonora Carrington
#74. You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.
Robert Thurman
#75. A grunting nocturnal animal, a machine of flesh and blood who wasn't ashamed of himself. But he never found redemption.
Robert Karjel
#76. Never be ashamed of where you've been, only the moment you stop trying.
L.M. Fields
#77. But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.
Henry Parry Liddon
#78. Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jackie Kennedy
#79. Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.
Emily Post
#80. Trouble was, they never let on to their sons how scared they was - so scared they forgot the color of a man because he could outshoot the man who scared 'em. And bein ashamed, they never talked about it or discussed it in the family.
Peter Matthiessen
#82. Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm 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
#83. Oddly enough, it was Prudence he studied beneath his lashes, not MacKay. The words he spoke came straight from his heart. No. Because she felt ashamed. Because she felt dirty. After the things he did to her, she could never feel worthy of someone as fine as you.
Teresa Medeiros
#84. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#85. Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
Louisa May Alcott
#86. Never test your friends, You will be ashamed or disappointed.
Miit Anmol
#87. The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
#88. I'm kind of feeling ashamed now that I never get bullied. Everyone keeps asking me, but I don't, and it's kind of annoying. I wish I could say I did get bullied, because then everyone would feel sorry for me.
Nicholas Hoult
#89. The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!
Simon Cowell
#90. I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
Jorge Luis Borges
#91. I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
J.K. Rowling
#92. Though she'd never been ashamed of what she'd done, she'd kept it secret because she'd understood that others wouldn't view it the same way she did.
Kresley Cole
#93. Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you
Unknown
#94. 4 I t sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him are u radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
Anonymous
#96. Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
Joyce Carol Oates
#97. I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
Tommy Kirk
#98. I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it. At any rate, I have all my life, as it were, turned my eyes away and never could look people straight in the face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift
#100. A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
John Selden
