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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

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.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.