Ashamed

Famous quotes containing the word ashamed:

“I’m ashamed of myself and this magazine too. The sloppy, slovenly notion that everybody’s busy doing bigger things. Well, there just isn’t anything bigger than beating down the complacence of essentially decent people about prejudice. Yes, I’m ashamed of myself.”
—Moss Hart (1904–1961)

“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 (1891–1985)

“Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)