Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak… — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Ive never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesnt… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The best qualities we have are the ones we never see. And the worst qualities we have are the ones we always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipulated; to be useful,… — Miranda Marrott Copy Share Image
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for… — Nathaniel Fick Copy Share Image
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I choose to live by choice,not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be useful, not used; to choose self esteem,… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for myself. To let me be myself for some period of time and found out that all of her… — Ariel Seraphino Copy Share Image
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“Self-compassion isn’t talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it’s often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you don't love yourself, you will always be chasing people who don't love you, either. — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I believe in monsters. Monsters are the calories in food. Monsters are the size of my jeans. Monsters are the self hatred… — Mickey Anderson Copy Share Image
Hey Ladies... give yourselves a break.No one owns your happiness.If someone doesn't make you happy then you should make yourself happy.Self pity… — Natasha Nsemiwe Copy Share Image
To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself. — Winifred Rhoades Copy Share Image
Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
When you go through storms in your life, you can either be pitiful or powerful, but you can't be both. Your attitude… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I think part of growing up is realizing its time to move on with life and to ignore all the self pity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better me for you, but most of all, I wish I could be a better me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling sorry for yourself won't change anything. If you want things to change you have to get up and do something about… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
