Shame Quotes - Page 39

• When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

  Amy Poehler

  Betrayed, Periods

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• I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

  Pope Francis

  Pain, Responsibility, People

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• When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

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• Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  Thinking, Retrospect, Moments

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• In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

  Matt Redman

  Heaven, Sorrow, Encounters

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, People, Pull Ups

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Effort, Trying

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• It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

  Mitch McConnell

  President, Use, Problem

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• Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

  George Chapman

  Pride

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

  Sydney Smith

  Reputation, Glory, Fame

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.88, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

  William Congreve

  Loss, Expression, Confusion

  William Congreve (1788). “The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes”, p.140

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• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

  Henri Rousseau

  Guilt, Criminals, Ridiculous

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• Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

  Thomas Watson

  Father, Devil, Wages

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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• We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

  Michael Moore

  War, Men, Orange

  Speech at the 75th Annual Academy Awards as the Winner in the Best Documentary Feature category, www.imdb.com. March 23, 2003.

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Intelligent

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• Doubt is the brother of shame.

  Erik Erikson

  Brother, Doubt

  ERIK H. ERIKSON (1968). “Identity Youth and Crisis”

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• Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

  Erik Erikson

  Determination, Exercise, Self

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

  David Axelrod

  Worry, Shenanigans, Election

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• One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Two

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• While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

  Seth

  Life, Motivational, Work

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• I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and appreciation for those who have stood by me, been tough on me, and have taken the time to understand that there is a deeper story and not to believe everything they read in the newspapers.

  Jayson Blair

  Appreciation, Betrayal, Believe

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• It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did.. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die.

  Ted Williams

  Marine, Thinking, Years

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• In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

  Virgil

  Heart, Sorrow, And Love

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• Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?

  Martha Beck

  Regret, Ironic, Connections

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