Shame Quotes - Page 23

• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

  Steven Adler

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

  Carl Whitaker

  Thinking, People, Want

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• We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Guilty, Shame And Guilt, Feels

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• But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Powerful, Hot, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

  Sheri Holman

  Men, Doe, Matter

  Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Regret

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress”, p.32, Thomas Nelson

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Should

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• 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

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Hero, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reality, Violence, Wells

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

  Charles Bukowski

  Race, Add, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

  Charlie Sheen

  War, Egypt, Two

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• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

  World, Compromise, Sin

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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• The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Too Much, Certain, Defiance

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• Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Shyness

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• The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Moving, Pride, Reflection

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

  Lloyd Banks

  Grandfather, Able, My Grandfather

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Environment, Revolt

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• If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Gossip, Say Anything, Accused

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• When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

  Louie Giglio

  Distance, Enemy, East

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• 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

  Inspirational, Reality, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 24, 2013

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• I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Dope, Games

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