Top 100 Quotes About Being Ashamed
#1. They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
Marilyn Manson
#3. The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.
Maggie Nelson
#4. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison
#5. I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Quentin Crisp
#7. But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.
James Baldwin
#8. Being ashamed of what you want or how you feel is pointless, and letting anyone else make you feel ashamed is a waste.
Kody Keplinger
#9. I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Baron De Montesquieu
#10. I learned that not being ashamed is the first step towards complete confidence about one's self, one's bones and flesh.
Anonymous
#11. 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
#12. Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. There's a reason they call it a private life, I'd often say to interviewers. But there's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. The
Portia De Rossi
#14. I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!
Phil McGraw
#18. Feel what I feel within myself - that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts - or ideas realize the thing that they are -
Marilyn Monroe
#19. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. Rowling
#20. I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,
Matthew Freud
#21. Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.
Lynn Grabhorn
#22. There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.
Portia De Rossi
#23. My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.
LeCrae
#24. I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.
Miuccia Prada
#25. If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.
Shannon McKenna
#26. Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the "in vain," insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure- - being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.
Tabitha Suzuma
#28. There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy
#29. On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
Anthony Trollope
#31. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Livy
#32. How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to their heart's desires. And by telling their stories.
Paulo Coelho
#33. I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.
John Catsimatidis
#34. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.
Maxim Gorky
#35. Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.
Tim Tebow
#36. I felt ashamed."
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal
of being a mortal."
"But how could you help that?"
"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?
C.S. Lewis
#37. Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.
Deepak Chopra
#38. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
Vance Havner
#39. Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.
Laura Mullen
#40. Each hour is a room of shame, and I am
swimming, swimming, holding my head up,
smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,
like being naked with the clothed, or being
a child, having to try to behave
while hating the terms of your life.
Sharon Olds
#42. Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America's prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.
David K. Shipler
#43. Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#44. A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
Arno Hintjens
#45. The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#46. Our common status made talk easier. [...] She knew the paradox of being stared at and not seen. She knew what it felt like to walk out of a movie theater feeling ashamed or erased.
Alex Tizon
#47. I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.
China Mieville
#48. Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!
Bill Maher
#49. Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
Jane Austen
#50. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
#51. To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.
Erich Fromm
#52. We might as well get started. Help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it that makes you so ashamed of being a grown-up? Oh. The way you both look at me. I'm trying to think of a better word than dread.
Warrior Doctor
#53. There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
Erich Fromm
#54. The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
Viktor E. Frankl
#55. There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
William S. Burroughs
#56. Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
Agnes Smedley
#57. The more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.
Virginia Aird
#59. Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.
Evel Knievel
#60. I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..
Anna Quindlen
#61. I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.
Cameron Diaz
#62. The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.
Darrel Ray
#63. I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
Tommy Kirk
#64. Don't ever be ashamed of being thought of as being tied to Holy Scripture. Don't ever be ashamed of exalting Holy Scripture. You're following in the steps of Jesus who bound himself to the Word of God, and insisted by his obedience to fulfil what was written of him.
J. Alec Motyer
#65. Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
Abbas Kiarostami
#66. You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Lord Hailsham
#67. Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here.
Tennessee Williams
#69. Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.
John Jakes
#70. Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
Elisabeth Elliot
#71. I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#72. It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
Aristotle.
#73. 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
#74. You're cooking", said Elizabeth, and each word came out of her mouth as if it was ashamed of being in the room with the others, "bunny soup.
Liam Perrin
#75. I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
Mary J. Blige
#76. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.
Mark Lawrence
#77. Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don't have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.
Anna White
#78. Blake Riley is a better man than anyone gives him credit for. And I'm ashamed of myself. I'm so fucking ashamed for ever believing that he was just a stupid jock who was incapable of being serious.
Sarina Bowen
#79. Don't be ashamed of being a woman and don't be ashamed to be an accomplished woman.
Marion Vernoux
#80. Don't be ashamed of being a big, soft teddy bear, Ham. The world needs more people like you, otherwise it'd just go to shit. - Ten
Linda Kage
#82. I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.
Miley Cyrus
#83. What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Robin G. Collingwood
#84. Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.
Adolf Hitler
#85. The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human.
Gregory David Roberts
#86. Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.
Andrew Ashling
#87. Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.
George Takei
#89. Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
Charles Caleb Colton
#90. I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.
Lily Allen
#91. Aren't you ashamed to work for these evil people, who arrest your brothers in faith for no reason than being Muslim?
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#92. Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
#93. Because I hate that word. Like being gay is something to be ashamed of. Like because Mer likes sports, it automatically makes her a lesbian. That insult doesn't even make sense.
Stephanie Perkins
#94. Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
Gloria Steinem
#95. What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
Josephine Baker
#96. Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.
Erich Fromm
#97. Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.
Paula Creamer
#98. Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
Ernest Hemingway,
#99. Don't think you'll shame me with your prim silence. I'm not ashamed in the least. Just because you make friends by acting as though you were found under a turnip leaf and raised by gnomes, it doesn't mean everyone takes pleasure in being prudish.
Tessa Dare
#100. I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
