Shame Yourself Quotes

#1. You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

Jessica Ortner

#2. You've fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well--there is no shame in that

Sara Raasch

#3. You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

Howard Pyle

#4. I don't know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit." "I - I figured it'd be a shame to ruin your pretty face," I stammered.

Richelle Mead

#5. When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you'd automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic.

Diyar Harraz

#6. Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

Carolyn Hax

#7. Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.

Vishwas Chavan

#8. Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

Geneen Roth

#9. It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Gregory Maguire

#10. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anais Nin

#11. In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. of course you understand why he can't forgive you because you can't forgive yourself. You don't even believe God forgave you...if you did you'd shove off that shame. Jesus forgave you. Why can't you? Why can't Jack?

Sarah Sundin

#13. And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Damon Wayans

#15. If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first.

Marcia Sirota

#16. It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Andrew O'Hagan

#17. It's easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard without having to stand the test in the true environment of the time.

Terry Goodkind

#18. If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

Eddie Izzard

#19. Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?

Amitav Ghosh

#20. What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Bernie Siegel

#21. Shame is a shackle. Free yourself.

Matt Haig

#22. Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. I certainly would be if I'd tumbled me.
"Does your love for yourself know no bounds?"
"Absolutely none.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. You want a crime to torture yourself for, try cowardice. The only sin that ever mattered a shit is the shame that put us all here. Fuck, I didn't give you that power just so you could judge yourselves. I gave you the power so you could judge God.

Hal Duncan

#24. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!

Iyanla Vanzant

#25. When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Osamu Dazai

#26. Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care of
yourself? You bet. But a person who's willing to work and pay their own way
can at least take pride in that even if they can't take pride in anything else.

John Hawkins

#27. 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

#28. Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

John Grisham

#29. Own your history and be who you are. To hide bits and pieces of yourself out of shame or fear is to be half-alive. To offer only half of yourself to others is to cheat them and yourself.

Margo Christie

#30. But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.

Gena Showalter

#31. I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Brene Brown

#32. No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Martha Beck

#33. Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

John Gielgud

#34. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

Robert Redford

#35. Tricks ripped and you tripped, tricked yourself by falling slowly.
I'm the winner in this game,
unable to stoop to your level of shame.
Unwilling to reply to your words of ache.

Coco J. Ginger

#36. What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...

Priya Basil

#37. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

Mordecai

#38. Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Wayne Dyer

#39. To relinquish yourself carries no shame.

Haruki Murakami

#40. Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it ... you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

Monica Lewinsky

#41. Since my earliest years I felt nothing but shame for the useless casing of flesh I inhabit.

Stephen Fry

#42. To the girl who hid in the shadows and tried to body-shame me, I'm sorry you thought that was a good use of your time and energy. I hope you find happiness within yourself. You deserve that. We all do.

Jen Wilde

#43. Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

Marianne Williamson

#44. You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

Iyanla Vanzant

#45. No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Andre Aciman

#46. All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out.

Robin Hobb

#47. We want to whisper to him that the only way to free yourself from shame is to realize how completely arbitrary it is - just what he was saying a day ago.

David Levithan

#48. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.

Edward T. Welch

#49. Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

Jim Henson

#50. Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Joyce Meyer

#51. Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of others. Allow yourself to connect in a deeper and more profound way.

David W. Earle

#52. And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#53. He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed - himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches.

Heidi Cullinan

#54. Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

Betty Dodson

#55. You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#56. There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#57. It's a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that 'I don't get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I'm never going to read any'. What a shame. All those great books that you're cutting yourself off from.

David Mitchell

#58. Losing tears along the seam of your own image of yourself. It is a mark of shame that causes internal injury, but no visible damage.

Pat Conroy

#59. One woman said, "Shame is hating yourself and understanding why other people hate you too.

Brene Brown

#60. When you kiss, you can close your eyes. You can kiss away the thoughts. You can kiss away the pain, the doubt, the shame. When you close your eyes and kiss, you protect yourself from the vulnerability.

Colleen Hoover

#61. 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

#62. Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates