Ashamed Quotes

• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Intelligent, Errors, Data

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• No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

  George McGovern

  Men, Advocating, Should

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• Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

  Unknown

  Proud, Who You Are, Be Proud

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Integrity, Men

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Issues, Coward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

  Barry Pepper

  War, Blessed, Fighting

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• Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

  Steven Furtick

  Victory, Cost, May

  FaceBook post by Steven Furtick from Jun 26, 2013

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• I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.

  Lauren Bacall

  Suicide, Years, Space

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• I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Pigs, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

  William Faulkner

  Life, Honesty, Now And Then

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• The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mother, Lying, Differences

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  No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Sad, Military

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Deeds And Words, Gentleman, Would Be

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

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• We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Kind Deeds

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• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom

  'Great Expectations' (1861) ch. 14

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• Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mind, Body, Action

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• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

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• I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

  Seneca the Elder

  Lines, Citing, Quotations

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• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  Fanny Burney

  Women, Memorable, Confessing

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• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

  E. M. Forster

  Husband, Literature, Want

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.206, Xist Publishing

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• Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

  J. K. Rowling

  Literature, Hagrid, Great Harry Potter

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Knowledge

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