Quotes About Being Someone's Doormat

#1. 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

#2. If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Christiane Amanpour

#3. 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

#4. Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Will Cuppy

#5. 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

#6. Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

William Collins

#7. The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. 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

#9. Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible,

Philip Jenkins

#10. The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Charles Stross

#11. ... forgiveness doesn't have to be synonymous with being a doormat.

Shelly Hickman

#12. To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

Maureen Howard

#13. As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.

Chica Umino

#14. A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.

Elise Blackwell

#15. It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

#16. I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

Tyrese Gibson

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. There's a difference between men who love to eat, and men who hunt for their food.

Dannika Dark

#23. The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Seth Godin

#24. 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