67 Top Shame Quotes & Sayings

Published on September 15, 2016 , under Quotes

Love It 0

Shame is a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour.

1. I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
A. J. Jacobs

2. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

3. Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Brene Brown

4. Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.
Marilyn J. Sorensen

5. You can't give up shame without giving up pride.
Anonymous

6. If enduring pain, braving shame, despising one's self for the sake of affection and accepting misery without question is the definition of love-then, i love you.
Gam

7. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb

8. Food guilt, i ate something bad Food shame, i'm a bad person for eating that Ditch the shame .
Brene Brown

9. There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.
Leon Brown

10. That moment of shame when you walk up to an automatic door and it doesn't open for you
Anonymous

11. That walk of shame when.. you try to throw something in the trash can and miss
Anonymous

12. Hope is her name she lands on my rooftop erasing my shame.
Anthony Liccione

13. What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton

14. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
Brene Brown

15. God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

17. Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais

18. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Anonymous

19. Shame is the intensely painful feeling that we are unworthy of love and belonging.
Brene Brown

20. Shame cannot survive being spoken… And being met with empathy.
Brene Brown

21. Having been poor is no shame, But being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

22. One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
Ramakrishna

23. Too many people are selling their existence carrying needless guilt and shame.
Anonymous

24. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin

25. Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
John Grisham

26. Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us.
Ann Patchett

27. If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one.
Max Lucado

28. Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson

29. Where perfectionism exists shame is always lurking.
Brene Brown

30. These people have no shame.
Charles Sciarra
These people have no shame. Charles Sciarra

31. Shame is worse than death.
Proverb
Shame is worse than death. Proverb

32. It's a shame I don't take my own advice.
Anonymous

33. Shame is a soul eating emotion.
C.G. jung

34. The difference between shame and guilt is the difference between i am bad and i did something bad.
Dr. Brene Brown

35. There is no shame in turning back, when you discover you are on the wrong path.
Anonymous

36. There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

37. Shame says that because I am flawed, I am unacceptable. Grace says that though i am flawed, i am cherished.
Anonymous

38. Shame on me for getting too close.
Anonymous

39. Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

40. Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope

41. It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

42. It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
Bill Pascrell

43. It wasn't a walk of shame, I moan. It was a dash of total fucking mortification.
Gemma Burgess

44. She Was Not Doing The Walk Of Shame, She Was Walking To her Shame.
Ouch

45. You play a ‘lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be’ blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that’s what rock n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere.
David Edwards
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same ... David Edwards

46. It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.
Laurie Halse Anderson

47. It's a shame when the things that are on your mind and in your heart never reach your lips.
Anonymous

48. When we are in shame, we don't see the big picture; we don't accurately think about our strengths and limitations. We just feel alone, exposed and deeply flawed.
Brene Brown

49. You have such a pretty face, it's a shame you're such a bitch
Anonymous

50. Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
Hesiod

51. I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people’s treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.
Sinead O'Connor

52. Shame is the intensely painful feeling that we are unworthy of love.
Brene Brown

53. Speak the truth and shame the devil.
Proverb

54. Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recovering.
Holli Kenley

55. Shame needs three things to grow exponentially in our lives; secrecy, silence, and judgment.
Brene Brown

56. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of but stigma and bias shame us all.
Bill Clinton

57. I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God’s approval, and that’s where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.
Jud Wilhite