Doormat Quotes

Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the…

— Doreen Virtue

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own…

— Manisha Koirala

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to…

— Joyce Rachelle

Women are not a doormat. We are equivalent to men. It is just that we have different bodies and different biological needs.

— Kalki Koechlin

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

— Ronald Reagan

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

— Charles Dickens

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of…

— Lucinda Williams

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

— John Steinbeck

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat,…

— Suzy Kassem

I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

— Elisabetta Canalis

Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.

— Arianna Huffington

“Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.”

— Shannon L. Alder

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want…

— Anonymous

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They…

— Caitlin Thomas

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

— Pablo Picasso

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

I'm not going to sit there and be a doormat, you know what I mean?

— Angelina Pivarnick

Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but…

— Bob Newhart

Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a…

— Anita Moorjani

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs -…

— Dave Barry

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

— Charles Stross

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist…

— Rebecca West

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

— Oscar Wilde