Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.
Quotes about self-pity (16 Quotes)
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
If you have been in the habit of inviting negative thoughts jealousy, envy, resentment, and self-pity, think of these as intruders in your mind. The old Chinese saying fits here 'You cannot stop the birds of the air from flying over your head, but you need not let them nest in your hair.' Face and define your troubles. Gather your worries to God. Do all you can about the situation that is causing them. Don't contaminate your friends and loved ones with them.
She has no room in her life for self-pity. She's about the business of what she's doing. It's a formula that works for her.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
In the midst of anger, jealousy, self-pity, a negative thought, or emotion, say 'I love myself in this moment, just as I am'.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
What bitterness could have enveloped them. They could have taken the attitude that the Lord was unjust. They had lived good lives. Why did this have to happen to a boy with such bright prospects But rather, this was their attitude, in their own words 'We shall be eternally grateful for the thirteen wonderful years that we were privileged to have him in our midst. We know that we are blessed in the knowledge that we are sealed as an eternal family. We know that Carl was preparing to fill a mission. We know that he was prepared for that mission and that he is now filling it.' No self-pity here, but rather an attitude of faith and hope and optimism, even under the most trying of circumstances.
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.
Sorrow is a form of self-pity.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.