Ashamed Quotes

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Work, Lonely, Humble

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, Poverty, Wealth

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, God, Nothing

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

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Loved, Equal

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

Important, Feelings, Words

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

Poor, White, Trash

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Become, Writer

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

End, Step, Morality

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, Good, Men

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

Stupid, Duty, Declares

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

Today, Saying, Words

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Live, Gossip, Town

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Family, Live, Gossip

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

Person, Find, Afraid

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson

Hurt, Sorry, Done

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

Writing, Hands, Private

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Lives, Decent

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Richard Bach

Live, True, Said

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

Good, Bad, Line

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Ambrose Bierce

Love, Women, Men

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ignorant, Confess

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette

Happiness, Fear, Anger

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

Humanity, Die, Victory

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Deeds, Motives

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.
Demi Lovato

Life, Happy, Motto

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Often, Actions

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Few, Longer

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