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'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

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
Julian Casablancas

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