Adam Savage Quotes

The only shame is to have none.

My behavior is humiliating.

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

It's so damned humiliating.

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

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

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Fire is more bearable than disgrace.

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

I don't have no shame.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.