Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

My behavior is humiliating.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

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

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

It hurts when people put you down.

I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

I don't touch anything I don't deserve.

I basically built myself up and I'm not about to let somebody else tear me down.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

I know who I am. When you get comfortable with yourself like that and you know you're doing the right thing, you can take a lot of crap.

I can take the mick out of myself so whatever anyone has got to say about me I still find it funny.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.