Not Lovable Quotes

#1. I'm not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.

Rahul Kanakia

#2. Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

Debbie Ford

#3. If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

T.D. Jakes

#4. I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

Demi Moore

#5. Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

Bernie Siegel

#6. things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope? I

George Eliot

#7. A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

E.B. White

#8. Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

Glen Cook

#9. No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.

Neville Chamberlain

#10. Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Josh Gad

#11. Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

Edward Abbey

#12. But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

George Eliot

#13. I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

Louise Hay

#14. I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love.

C.S. Lewis

#16. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Nhat Hanh

#17. I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.

Diego Rivera

#18. A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.

Carrie Jones

#19. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Erin McKean

#21. You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

Bobby Knight

#22. God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Loving yourself ... does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

Margot Anand

#24. Beyond all lessons, beyond the model she provided, my mother gave me a parent's ultimate gift; she made me feel lovable and good. She paid attention; she listened; she remembered what I said. She did not think me perfect, but she accepted me, without qualification.

Fredelle Bruser Maynard

#25. Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

Pope Gregory I

#26. Megan loves orgasms so much, she would not hesitate to steal yours.

Roy Station

#27. I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

Gillian Flynn

#28. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#29. It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#30. ... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

Oswald Chambers

#31. Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Jessica Clare

#32. My body - I do not fall to pieces and be reduced to a big pile of lovable mush over a woman, never!

A.R. Von

#33. Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Joseph Campbell

#34. God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

David B. Haight

#35. I'm not a lovable man.

Richard M. Nixon

#36. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.

E. M. Forster

#37. People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.

Sonia Choquette

#38. Just as you need the man in your life to love you unconditionally, even when you're not particularly lovable, your man needs you to demonstrate your respect for him regardless of whether he's meeting your expectations at the moment.

Shaunti Feldhahn

#39. It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Ashley Montagu

#40. Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Fulton J. Sheen

#41. You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Karen Salmansohn

#42. Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

Jerry Saltz

#43. I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

Jack Paar

#44. I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Julie Kavner

#45. Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Norman Vincent Peale

#46. She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

Joyce Maynard

#47. Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#48. I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#49. You are very much lovable, that even dreaming you every night is not repeated.

M.F. Moonzajer

#50. That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

Deb Caletti

#51. I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Pat Conroy

#52. We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.

Richard Wurmbrand

#53. Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis

#54. Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it

Rita Zahara

#55. Fine, but you should at least have to write an epic poem in my honor. Here, I'll help you. "Ode to Keefe Sencen, that brave lovable nut. He may not have teal eyes, but he has a really cute,"
"KEEFE"!

Shannon Messenger

#56. We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

Thomas Merton

#57. He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

C.S. Lewis