Top 87 Quotes About Sorry For Yourself
#1. Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.
Frederick Lenz
#2. If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.
Frederick Lenz
#3. You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.
Phil Anselmo
#4. There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.
Frank Mir
#5. It's not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it's not wrong to stand in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.
Gary Paulsen
#7. You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.
Wally Lamb
#8. Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie
#9. Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.
Mark Teixeira
#10. So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.
Ysabella Brave
#11. Sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy. I stopped talking
Anne Frank
#13. Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.
Edgar Cayce
#14. I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.
Drew Carey
#15. When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.
Norman Maclean
#16. Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.
Tsem Tulku
#17. Ruth, if you don't want to go to law school, you have the best reason in the world and no one would think less of you," Morris said. "But if you really want to go to law school, you will stop feeling sorry for yourself. You will find a way.
Irin Carmon
#18. I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
Douglas Coupland
#19. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
Stephen Fry
#20. When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?
Tony Dungy
#21. I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother ... Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.
Garrison Keillor
#22. Anyhow, be happy. I get the feeling a lot of shit is going to come your way, but you're a stubborn son of a bitch, I'm sure you'll handle it. Mind if I give you one piece of advice?" "Sure, go ahead." "Don't feel sorry for yourself," he said. "Only assholes do that.
Haruki Murakami
#23. I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want
Charlize Theron
#24. With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Wayne W. Dyer
#26. I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.
Joan Rivers
#27. Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
Jodi Picoult
#28. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think.
Michele Woolley
#29. Whenever you start to feel sorry for yourself, always remember that there are a lot of people out there who are amazingly talented and make you look like a drooling Neanderthal.
Robert Leland Taylor
#30. Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#31. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!
Richard L. Evans
#32. Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.
Peace Pilgrim
#33. My father told us:
The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.
Mariam Cheshire
#34. You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.
Robert Rauschenberg
#35. Don't feel so sorry for yourself. Make do.
Stephen King
#36. There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.
Dave Davies
#37. Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Willie Nelson
#38. Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.
Joan Didion
#39. When life hits you down, you have a choice make it- You either stay down and feel sorry for yourself or get up and believe in your self.
Tilicia Haridat
#40. You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
Frederick Lenz
#41. I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton
#42. AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
Ryan White
#43. Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time.
Dave Thomas
#44. You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
(after not being picked starting goalie)
Jens Lehmann
#45. What are you doing sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself? When life kicks your butt, kick the shit out of it!
Elizabeth A. Reeves
#46. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#47. Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself ... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
Conor McGregor
#48. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Kathryn Stockett
#49. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stay the course, but also plot another one. Adapt.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you immediately have to name five greats.
Amy Harmon
#51. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#52. Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Richard L. Evans
#53. We don't get much time, and time feeling sorry for yourself is time wasted.
Joe Abercrombie
#54. Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life.
L. H. Cosway
#55. Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.
John Wooden
#56. May I give you a piece of advise? ... Don't feel sorry for yourself, only arseholes do that.
Haruki Murakami
#57. Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?
Jon Jones
#58. Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
Wally Lamb
#59. Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#60. If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.
Justin Hartley
#61. The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Sam glanced at him. "Feeling sorry for yourself, are you? I suppose you're allowed. I mean, look at how bloody awful your life is."
"Sarcasm doesn't become you," Griffin retorted.
Kady Cross
#63. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases
and now you're in the mommy phase.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#64. There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.
Ricky Gervais
#65. If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Because - admit it - there's something perversely appealing about sitting all alone, feeling sorry for yourself, especially when the scenery's stunning and there's a party going on behind you.
Kirsten Hubbard
#68. Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know.
Sorcha MacMurrough
#69. You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift ... You get to choose
Wayne Dyer
#70. If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Kim Kardashian
#71. Don't ever be sorry, Serena, for letting yourself feel. Without that, we're not human. We're no better than our killer. We're nothing more than animals.
Adriana Hunter
#72. Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.
Gabrielle Zevin
#73. Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.
Elena Ferrante
#74. I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.
Brenda Hodnett
#75. I'm awful sorry to bother. I can come back. I was wondering if maybe there was any special Program prayer for when you want to hang yourself.
David Foster Wallace
#76. Fear is more human than bravery, you're scared and you're sorry, at least for yourself, but you force your fear back into your subconscious.
Svetlana Alexievich
#77. Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.
J.K. Rowling
#78. It is always better, and far more rewarding, I have observed, to have someone else feel sorry for you, than to do the job yourself.
Alan Bradley
#79. Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"Thank you for sending me to a therapist, and I'm sorry that I actually need a therapist?
Dan Wells
#80. Helping someone because you feel sorry for them is one thing, but doing it because you like them and care about what happens to them is better. That means you aren't doing it for yourself.
Katherine Allred
#81. When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.
Tony Gaskins
#82. Sorry, Sam, but I call 'em like see 'em. When you hire a nanny for the kids, you hire Mrs. Doubtfire. When you hire someone who looks like Sunny ... well, then I'm afraid you hired her for yourself.
Jennifer Shirk
#83. There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.
Richard Llewellyn
#84. I'm so sorry, bright little thing."
"For what, my lord?:" I asked, my voice small and lost in the dim air.
His words caught in his throat as he answered. "For not making the world a place where you could choose to fight for yourself.
Lesley Livingston
#85. On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.
Dan J. Marlowe
#86. 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
#87. You can be sorry you aren't perfect, but never be sorry for being yourself.
Gabriel Macht
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