21 Quotes About Ashamed

Sometimes people will do things they regret, even if they know it was wrong. We can all be ashamed of our actions, but the shame only lasts so long. As soon as you realize what you've done wrong, you have to forgive yourself, and move on with your life. Never forget that mistakes are just lessons to be learned Read more

Here are some quotes about being ashamed that will help you remember that.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food....
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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. Leo Tolstoy
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For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone. Markus Zusak
What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight,...
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What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one. Anthony Powell
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The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious. Joel Osteen
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I’m secretly looking forward to someone whom I’m no longer ashamed to explain myself to, whom I can peel off all my metaphors and codes and reveal what the hell has happened all these years. Writemarmalade
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These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. Jim Crace
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O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live.. Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us.. The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty..but are admirable in chastity..what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?"- Salvian. William J. Federer
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Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there’s something wrong with them because they find war repugnant but also thrilling. They hate it and miss it. Many of their self-judgments go to extremes. A comrade died because he stepped on an improvised explosive device and his commander feels unrelenting guilt because he didn’t go down a different street. Insurgents used women and children as shields, and soldiers and Marines feel a totalistic black stain on themselves because of an innocent child’s face, killed in the firefight. The self-condemnation can be crippling. The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015. David Brooks
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest William Faulkner
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Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud. Christina Engela
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When a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others’) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis . Kathy Steele
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And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man. Paul Auster
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Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called." On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed, " came the response. Robin Jarvis
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I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her. Mohsin Hamid
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Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become. Darryl Stewart Wellness
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She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse. Donna Lynn Hope
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If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first. Marcia Sirota
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Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes. Adolf Hitler
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I was always mortified. Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? Janet Fitch