Embarrassment Quotes

• Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

  Rick Riordan

  Relationship, People, Parent

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Speak, Enough

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.250, Stackpole Books

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

  Amy Poehler

  Neighbor

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Computerworld". Book by Douglas Engelbart, p.42, June 22, 1992.

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• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Single

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

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• I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Essence, Challenges

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Embarrassing, Certain

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

  Susan Piver

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Buddhist

  "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

  Tony Benn

  Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

  "99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

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• Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

  Lynn Swann

  Play, People, Embarrassed

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• The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

  Al Capp

  Life, Differences, Secret

  Al Capp (1991). “My Well-balanced Life on a Wooden Leg: Memoirs”, Daniel & Daniel Pub

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• Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Humility, People, Wonderful

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• I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

  Ishmael Reed

  Discipline, Honor, Racist

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  Neal Stephenson

  People, Scary, Nerd

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.646, Random House

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Daughter, Mother, Eye

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• Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

  Bill Brandt

  Fields, Admitting, Photographer

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• My films are about embarrassment.

  Alan Bennett

  Film

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• Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Voice, Details

  "Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.

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• I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Silence, Needs, Embarrassed

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• Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

  Chris Matthews

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Mean, Men, Doctors

  "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

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• I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

  Derek Bok

  Attitude, Done, Way

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