Top 72 Doormat Quotes
#1. Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.
David Stafford
#2. The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
Ronald Reagan
#3. If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.
Robert Breault
#4. You must think I'm a complete idiot right? That I'm just some doormat who'll wait for you on the sidelines forever? That you can keep running back to her every time things get difficult and I'll just be okay with it?!
Stephanie Perkins
#5. Well, she's not your daughter,Connie. She hasn't walked all over you like a doormat for a decade.
John Green
#6. God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.
Lewis B. Smedes
#7. The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
Charles Stross
#8. They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens
#9. He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet. He tripped over the doormat as he went in and stumbled forward; the hall porter jumped out and caught him by the elbow.
Nevil Shute
#10. You're a doormat. You always consider everyone before yourself, and until you learn to be a bit more selfish people will always wipe their feet on you.
Lesley Pearse
#11. It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
Fannie Flagg
#12. As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!
Amanda Harlech
#13. Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
Leo Buscaglia
#14. If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.
Janey Rosen
#15. Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.
Lucy Wood
#16. As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.
Shawn Michaels
#17. It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.
Rebecca Stead
#19. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
#20. Girls you are stronger than you know.. If you don't like being treated like a doormat the get the f**k off the floor.
Kelly Elliott
#21. Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.
Marla Buchanan
#22. People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
#23. Consider your self as a strong person when you have been challenged enough...(think about it) If you have allowed people to continually step all over you,then you deserve to be used as a doormat!
Auliq Ice
#24. American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
John Steinbeck
#25. You and I both know a submissive is not a doormat. A dominant cannot be a dominant without consent, and I think you have more need than you're willing to admit." "You're
Elizabeth SaFleur
#26. If you do a single thing - and especially if there is a lot of money in that single thing - you should put a 'Welcome, Robots!' doormat outside your office," wrote technology expert Farhad Manjoo in Slate. "They're coming for you.
Robert Wachter
#28. Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.
Jane Green
#29. How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?
Barbara Kingsolver
#30. The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
Mark Twain
#31. He should accept me as I am! says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.
Sherry Argov
#32. Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.
Shannon L. Alder
#33. If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Oscar Wilde
#35. The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
William Proxmire
#36. Paul Ryan has become a doormat ... And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.
Arianna Huffington
#37. They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.
David Nicholls
#38. I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Lucinda Williams
#39. I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
Manisha Koirala
#40. In primary school, there are kids who learn their conjugations and their multiplication tables. Me, I learned something more useful: the strong get off on walking all over other people, and wiping their feet while they're at it, like you would on a doormat.
Marie Sabine Roger
#42. You don't have to be a doormat to be good. Even good people are allowed self-defense.
Eliza Crewe
#43. You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
Manny Montana
#44. If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#45. The doormat version of idiot compassion always involves allowing ourselves to feel walked all over in the name of idealizing what it means to be patient with another person's aggressive behavior. It's an unwillingness to face the uncomfortable truth that it's okay to feel angry and irritated.
Ethan Nichtern
#46. The moral of the story couldn't be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide if you're done being a doormat. You need to wake up one morning and decide that those rose-colored glasses are so last fucking season.
Brandi Glanville
#47. We are not in love. Not the way I've been told
being in love feels like. But we have been sleeping
beside each other for so many nights and I
am the most beautiful doormat you have ever
walked over.
Clementine Von Radics
#48. If your idea of strength is mere ignorant resistance, then you have no ability to project intelligent force in the world. In which case, your only choices are to be a doormat or a difficulty.
Kevin Casey
#49. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
#50. ... forgiveness doesn't have to be synonymous with being a doormat.
Shelly Hickman
#51. Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.
Nina Hartley
#52. It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.
Mario Puzo
#53. They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
"Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
"Make Harry get it."
"Get the mail, Harry."
"Make Dudley get it."
"Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
J.K. Rowling
#54. I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful
Teresa Mummert
#55. I'm no doormat. At worst, I'm a very attractive accent rug, because if I get stained or damaged, someone is going to f---ing die.
S. Hart
#56. No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
Lynn Coady
#57. What I'm trying to say is that I'll always be there for you, Tara. You need someone to help you, I'm your guy. You need a couple or three orgasms? I'm your personal toy. You need to let off some steam, someone to yell at, I'll be your doormat ...
Jill Shalvis
#58. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.
Mandy Hale
#59. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?
Nuala O'Faolain
#60. Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.
Doreen Virtue
#61. The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is.
John Mulhall
#62. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.
Augusten Burroughs
#63. Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.
Bryant McGill
#64. It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.
Oswald Chambers
#67. I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.
Joyce Rachelle
#68. Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don't bear his autograph.
Natalya Vorobyova
#70. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.
Joyce Rachelle
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