Shame Quotes - Page 18

• Misery and shame are nearly allied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.180

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• I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

  Wesley Clark

  Memories, Thinking, Risk

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• Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, I Love Him, Thinking

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that, that's fine. Live and let live. But for those who regret never trying, it's a shame because the Web, as complex as it may seem, makes it all possible

  Ken Evoy

  Courage, Regret, Long

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• Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

  William H. Ginsburg

  Stupid, Humorous, Law

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• People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Hate, Moving

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• I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time.

  Helen Simonson

  Mistake, Adventure, Thinking

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• If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hurt, Children, Cancer

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• God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Attitude, Holiday

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Hold Me

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, College, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Christian, Errors, Historical

  "Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies aged 88". www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2015.

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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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• You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Lynching

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.2, Bantam

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• False shame only is harmful.

  Livy

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• Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

  Horace

  Courage, Fool, Wounds

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• I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.

  Vicky Beeching

  Pain, Teaching, Years

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• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Life, Confused, Heart

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• She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

  Jenna Blum

  Life, Believe, Doe

  Jenna Blum (2005). “Those Who Save Us”, p.445, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

  Joseph Campbell

  Done, Waste, Uniqueness

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• Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Soul, Guilt

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Tasks, Hours

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• There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

  Walter Lippmann

  Law, Devil, Journalism

  Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Acceptance, Publicity, Modern

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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