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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

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

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake

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

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.

Paul Ekman,

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan

Hakuin

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

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

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

Carl Whitaker

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Titus Livy

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

Walter Lippmann

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

Seneca

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Ben Johnson

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing -- I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

Rodney Yee

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

William Cowper

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Hugh Blair

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status

Lao-Tzu

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under

Henry Mencken

The difference between guilt and shame is very clearóin theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

LEWIS B. SMEDES

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