Best shame & doubt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.”

Firsts Humans Feelings Hate Doubt Capable Negative Shame Guilt Males Zone Contempt Twilight Disgusting Trapped Halfway Disgrace Apes Twilight Zone Negative Feelings

Author:Valerie Solanas

“Doubt is the brother of shame.”

Doubt Brother Shame

Book:Identity Youth and Crisis

Source: Identity Youth and Crisis

“Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.”

Wells Self Choices Doubt Exercise Determination Shame Spite Restraint Infancy Unbroken Self Restraint Free Choice

Book:Insight and Responsibility

Source: Insight and Responsibility

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

People Thinking Whole Doubt Shame Whole Life

Author:Dolly Parton

“Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.”

Acting Doubt Shame Encounters Worth It Humiliation

Author:David Mamet

“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”

Knows Way Writing Self Easy Break Doubt Mass Shame Hungry Packs Ladders Herds Self-doubt Aspiring Writers

Author:Chuck Wendig

“Healthy things grow, and growing things change. If we allow fear or doubt or shame or insecurity to hold us back from something new God is calling us to do, we may miss out on his greatest purpose for our life. As believers, we go from strength to strength, from glory to glory. And in order to keep expanding God's kingdom, we have to keep growing and trying new things.”

Trying Purpose Doubt Missing Healthy Glory Shame Believer Insecurity Something New Things Change

Author:Christine Caine

“All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.”

Want Should Said Views Responsibility Situation Accepting Doubt Shame Finals Teeth No Doubt Confronting Final Words

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Long Light Care Past Waiting Doubt Sorrow Breaths Shame Affection Hungry Spells Persist Forgetfulness Gloomy Subjection Tess Spectre Moodiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

Giving May Eye Spirit Enemy Sun Clear Doubt Strength Give Me Shame Defeat Setting Settings Fades Give Me Strength Cherokee Clear Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.”

Water Poor Lord Gone Doubt Fire Too Much Tears Speech Shame Tricks Folly Ophelia Adieu

Author:William Shakespeare

“There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.”

People Knows Would Be Doubt Achieve Pride Amount Terrible Shame Shoes Harm Genuine Worthless Truly Happy Pride In Yourself

Book:Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?”

Doubt Consequence Shame Guilt Instinct Speaking Out

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.”

Ifs Doubt Shame

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Feelings Doubt Shame Seats Feeling Pretty Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

“Those who are fearful will find courage. Those who are fearless will not know courage. Those who are doubtful will find faith. Those who are certain will not know faith. Those who are shameful will find honor. Those who are shameless will not know honor.”

Faith Fear Courage Doubt Honor Shame

Book:The Key of Ahknaton

Source: The Key of Ahknaton

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