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

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

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Douglas Hyde

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

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

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.
Gene Robinson

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

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
Mike Wilson

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
Richard Widmark

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
Burt Bacharach

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling