Top 265 Ashamed Quotes

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
I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.
Otto Hahn
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
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
Rumi
Sure, I’m ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn’t be the person I am today if I hadn’t gone through those experiences.
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.
Mickey Rooney
I think that people should never be ashamed of wanting to move on with their lives and move on from their partners. I have a lot of girlfriends who were married in their early 20s and are now divorced because they basically grew apart – they evolved into another person in their 30s.
Alanna Ubach
Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It’s something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It’s part of our history. It’s part of us.
Patty Mills
It’s actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody’s ashamed of this back and forth.
Brett Gelman
I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.
Khoudia Diop
Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don’t need to be embarrassed of it.
Cameron Dallas
I’ve done things in the media I was not only not proud of, I was ashamed of.
Nadya Suleman
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black America. As a young black, at times I was ashamed of my color; I was ashamed of my hair. And Ali made me proud.
Reggie Jackson
There are always fellow Marines who understand and know what you’re going through. Be proud, don’t be ashamed, and go out there and tackle the second life you’ve been given.
Kyle Carpenter
There’s nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you’re going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it’s too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
Camryn Manheim
Well, of course, every actor’s limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I’ve hit the wall a bit. I’m not ashamed at all, I think it’s a process that you have to go through. That’s how you learn.
Rutger Hauer
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall
2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.
Boosie
What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
Daniel Baldwin
I pick my nose and I’m not ashamed to admit it. If there’s a bogey then just pick it, man.
Justin Timberlake
I was so ashamed of who I was.
Lady Gaga
Don’t ever be ashamed of the Gospel. Stand up, and be bold.
Israel Folau
I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There’s something about themselves physically that they’re not happy with, that they’re ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.
Roxane Gay
I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.
Kirti Kulhari
I mostly get takeout, I have to admit – I don’t know if that’s something to be ashamed of. I’m not much of a cook.
Janeane Garofalo
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don’t ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don’t ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.
Roddy Ricch
I’m not ashamed of my personal life.
Lindsey Buckingham
I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I thi

I’m very political and I’m not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.
Amybeth McNulty
I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don’t have to be ashamed of it.
Lili Reinhart
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
Simon Cowell
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won’t tell and people feel it’s because I’m being secretive or something, but it’s actually because I’m ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
Abbas Kiarostami
I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.
Nicholas D’Agosto
Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.
Park Shin-hye
Fame is great when everything in your life is going well. But when it goes wrong, when you’re having to jump on a bus, because you can’t afford to pay for a taxi, and you catch people looking at you. It might sound strange, but you feel ashamed. And that’s hard to deal with.
Martin Kemp
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
There was a paperwork mishap on ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes,’ in that the end credits was simply called ‘End Credits.’ And that’s what appears on the album. Once we realised that was out there, we were so ashamed.
Michael Giacchino
I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.
Rivaldo
We all have things we’re ashamed of.
Bianca Del Rio
I’m ashamed to say, I’ve done hideous pen portraits of people I don’t like in my novels. And they’ll say, ‘Oh, that person was hideous,’ and I’m nodding, and I’m thinking, ‘It’s you, you fool!’
Sandi Toksvig
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
Louis de Bernieres
If you’re over 22, getting a tattoo and you don’t do work that involves tools you should be ashamed of yourself!
Sean Lock
It is everyone’s story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.
Saba Qamar
Honestly, when someone speaks to me about Juventus I try to change the subject immediately. I’m ashamed of the transfer!
Nicolas Anelka
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
I feel very ashamed to have chosen a brother like Azam Khan. Maybe it was a wrong choice for me to call him a brother and he proved in reality he is not the person he pretends to be.
Jaya Prada
Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
Liz Truss
People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.
Cardi B
We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents… and we’ve taken that inheritance and squandered it.
Cory Booker
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don’t speak it fluently. I’m ashamed of that.
Michael Trevino
I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They’ve been earned. They’ve been fought for – so there’s no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it’s to do with what’s inside you. You can’t obsess about the outside.
Cherie Lunghi
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
Julian Casablancas
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Izaak Walton
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
I’m not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
Amy Lee
I will do my best so that I won’t feel ashamed of myself in the future.
Ok Taec-yeon
I want validation. I’m not ashamed to say that I need the world to validate me and for people to say, ‘You are what you think you are.’
Mod Sun
We’re not ashamed of the old stuff, but when you look back at the posters it does make you think: ‘My God, six men and one woman.’ Weirdly we didn’t say ‘that’s wrong’ and no one else did, either. It’s been a really quick shift in the landscape of telly, which is brilliant.
Alex Horne
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Andrei Platonov
Some of those early photographs of me might as well be

Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It’s always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is ‘The Avengers’ bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I’m not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.
Diana Rigg