Quotes about Feeling Sorry

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself. Votes: 6

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself. Votes: 6

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. Votes: 4

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. Votes: 4

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes. Votes: 4

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. Votes: 4

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else. Votes: 4

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. Votes: 4

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Votes: 4

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self. Votes: 4

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding. Votes: 4

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young. Votes: 4

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger. Votes: 4

The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists. Votes: 4

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. Votes: 4

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish. Votes: 4

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on. Votes: 4

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. Votes: 4

Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.' Votes: 4

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.' Votes: 4

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. Votes: 4

Real wealth is feeling sorry for the poor Votes: 3

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. Votes: 3

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself. Votes: 3

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves. Votes: 3

When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks. Votes: 3

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort. Votes: 3

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other. Votes: 3

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. Votes: 3

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. Votes: 3

When I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll eat Lucky Charms cereal. I like having sugar when I'm in that mood. Votes: 3

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. Votes: 3

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time. Votes: 3

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. Votes: 3

It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too. Votes: 3

Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone. Votes: 3

It is hard to lose the people we love ,but feeling sorry they died is selfish.Dying is going heaven home to God we know your papa is in heaven with our Lady and Jesus.Let us try to be happy for him. Votes: 3

I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life. Votes: 3

The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind. Votes: 3

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer. Votes: 3

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened. Votes: 2

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Votes: 2

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is. Votes: 2

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. Votes: 2

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. Votes: 2

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. Votes: 2

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. Votes: 2

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself. Votes: 2

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. Votes: 2

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't. Votes: 2

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. Votes: 2

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did. Votes: 2

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. Votes: 2

Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn't tell Donald Trump, 'You need to fire your barber. I'm sorry. I ain't feeling you, man. You're fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.' Votes: 2

Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way. Votes: 2

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential to prepare them for it. Feeling sorry for children is one of the most seriously damaging attitudes we can have. It so greatly demonstrates to them and to ourselves that we lack faith in them and their ability to cope with adversities. Votes: 2

In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today. Votes: 2

Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed. Votes: 2

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. Votes: 0

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions. Votes: 0

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings. Votes: 0

You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter." Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines Votes: 0

It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you." Votes: 0