Feeling Sorry For Yourself Quotes

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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.

I like to make sure I don’t sing songs that are like self hating and feeling sorry for yourself ’cause that’s not the kind of legacy I want to leave really. I want people to feel like strength, especially young women.

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.

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.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go … focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response – again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists…. It does take practice though.

I’m a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

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.

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.

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.

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, ‘How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success’. And people buy this huge book and it’s all blank pages, and the first page would just say, ‘Stop feeling sorry for yourself–and you will be happy.’

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself… Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.