Ashamed Quotes - Page 17

• If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, May

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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• Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Military, Goal

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• I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight...I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some...tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Kings, Motivation, Fighting

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• In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, America, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Past

  "Drew Barrymore: People should shut up about my wild past, I’m proud of it". London Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. August 24, 2010.

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• If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Self Esteem, Fighting

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• Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Shame, Feels

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• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  Barbara Amiel

  Vortex, Speech, Recycling

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• I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Thinking

  "Christina Ricci Interview SPEED RACER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 3, 2008.

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• I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Two, Like You, Younger Sister

  "Khloe Kardashian On How She Plans To Spend Valentine’s Day With Lamar Odom". Interview with Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Heart, Emotional, Ice

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1866). “The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)”, p.252

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• A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Deeds, Outrun

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

  George Blake

  Country, Fighting, Kgb

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Character, Men, Views

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• I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

  Henry James

  Memorable, Simple, Eggs

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11484, Delphi Classics

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• The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Powerful, Law

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, Ignatius Press

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• Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Home, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

  Paul Westerberg

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

  Mae West

  Psychics, Long, Empowerment

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• We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

  David Cone

  Jobs, Angel, Done

  "The Slow Boil" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  Socrates

  Car, Soul, Reputation

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• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

  Ernst Mach

  Believe, Science, Support

  Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”

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• 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

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

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• 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

  Clever, Men, Proud

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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