Quotes with ashamed

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  • Mark Twain If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Malcolm X If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Confucius 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
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Brenda Ueland It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • George Eliot Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • J. K. Rowling Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • George Mcgovern No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Pope 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
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Agnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles Dickens One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Will Rogers So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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