Definition of Ashamed
Ashamed

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

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Ashamed Quotations

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

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mohandas Gandhi

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

Ashamed Translations

ashamed in Dutch is beschaamd
ashamed in French is penaud
ashamed in Italian is umiliato
ashamed in Spanish is avergonzado, confwso
ashamed in Swedish is skamsen