Self Quotes - Page 5

Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Eugène Ionesco

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

M. Kathleen Casey

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.

Lena Home

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Margaret Drabble

Misery is a communicable disease.

If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Despair is criminal.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bernard M. Baruch

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

He who complains sins.

Saint Francis de Sales

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

Henry David Thoreau

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

Christian N. Barnard

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

The cure for grief is motion.

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Lucan

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Elizabeth Elliot

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Anonymous

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

La Rochefoucauld

All men love themselves.

Plautus

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

William Shakespeare

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Wilde Self-Made

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

English Proverb

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

Oliver C. Wilson

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Lady Bird Johnson

Grumbling is the death of love.

Marlene Dietrich

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

Winifred Rhoades

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

Anonymous

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I am because my little dog knows me.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

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