Top 265 Ashamed Quotes

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
Richard Widmark
I am not ashamed to admit that I’m wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.
Sophie Dahl
I love being a comfortable person, but I’m very open. I’m not ashamed of myself and my beliefs.
Kendra Wilkinson
It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
Melina Matsoukas
I’m neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I’ve experienced, I’m not ashamed of it.
Shania Twain
My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I’ve realised that I don’t have to be ashamed of my past.
Andreja Pejic
Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.
Portia de Rossi
You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‘in the know,’ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.
Adam Sandler
I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of… trying to appear what I thought was normal.
Bill Clegg
I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we – humanitarians – have been complicit.
Winnie Byanyima
I am one of the many Scots who has had to leave Scotland in order to find employment so I in no way feel ashamed I have not been in Scotland.
Angus Macfadyen
Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.
Leslie Jordan
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.
John Wayne
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess – I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
Lou Doillon
If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.
Jillian Michaels
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
Angelina Jolie
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
Frank McCourt
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother’s recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
Nathan Myhrvold
I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.
Shayna Baszler
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, ‘We never deal with peddler!’ Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
Vash Young
I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
John Burns
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi
I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I had a thick accent, and people didn’t understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn’t try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, ‘He’s racist!’
Karan Mahajan
It’s nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you’re struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.
Christopher Knight
I downloaded a Kylie Minogue album and it had all the classics like ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ and ‘Locomotion.’ I’m not even ashamed to say I love it, I’m proud.
Laura Whitmore
I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I’m still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
Carrie Fisher
I didn’t want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
Margaret Keane
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against y

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling
Feel ashamed of my generation. We’ve let down our children and their children.
Gary Lineker
I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.
Madam C. J. Walker
No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern
I’m ashamed to say that I really hated the Internet. I didn’t understand it and I thought, ‘What’s the point of this?’
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
My sexuality’s something that’s intimate. It’s not anything that I’m ashamed of.
Antoni Porowski
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
It’s not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up.
Alicia Garza
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
I don’t think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.
Christina Ricci
I’m not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I’m telling you is real; it’s from the heart.
Pepa
I’ve done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that – stuff I’m not ashamed of, but that doesn’t represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
Chrissie Hynde
When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.
J. J. Redick
I feel like, in the Czars, for example, I was afraid. I couldn’t express myself. I didn’t have a connection to myself. That’s one of the huge reasons why it was such a difficult existence. I put a lot of that on myself. I couldn’t access myself. I couldn’t look at myself, because I was too ashamed.
John Grant
I’m an honest man. I am living my life. I’m not stealing. And I’ve never been ashamed of who I am – I am a Roma.
Danis Tanovic
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what’s the best film you’ve made and so on and I don’t really have any hesitation that the film I’m least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
Richard Attenborough
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I’m not ashamed of it.
Oliver North
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
Sara Gilbert
I’m not embarrassed that I’m mixed. I’m not ashamed that I’m mixed. I very much embraced both sides.
Sasha Lane
I don’t want to read about the fabricated version of someone’s life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?
Jenny Mollen
I’m ashamed to say that I’m from a very privileged background.
David Lagercrantz
This idea of the geek or the nerd, all that person really is – and I would consider myself one – is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.
Andrew W.K.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
I’ve actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn’t need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.
Howard Stern
I was 15 when I did Rufio and now I’ve been Rufio for more of my life than I haven’t been. Wrestling with that is always interesting because you don’t want to be fully defined by it, but at the same time it’s you, and you don’t want to be ashamed of you either.
Dante Basco
I’m kind of feeling ashamed now that I never get bullied. Everyone keeps asking me, but I don’t, and it’s kind of annoying. I wish I could say I did get bullied, because then everyone would feel sorry for me.
Nicholas Hoult
Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand… If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.
Ruben Diaz Sr.
I’m a big Kings of Leon fan. And there’s probably some Britney Spears and Justin Bieber in my playlist too – which I’m definitely not ashamed of.
Nick Viall
I just am trans. That’s just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy’s body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home.
Janet Mock
When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
Zac Brown
There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.
Judy Gold
You should never be embarrassed or ashamed of listening

You should never be embarrassed or ashamed of listening to a particular type of music.
Gnash
People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it’s something petty. But it’s not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.
Christine Leunens