Feeling Sorry Quotes - Page 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.

  Mary J. Blige

  Sorry, Party, Responsibility

  "Oprah Talks to Mary J. Blige". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2006.

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• 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.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Children, Sorry, Attitude

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, Selfish, People

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• 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.

  Minnie Driver

  Letting Go, Sorry, Loneliness

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• 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.

  Roger Federer

  Hurt, Sorry, Player

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• 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.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Sorry, Cancer

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand that as humans we all do the very best we can, and we can't ask for more than that. Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God's light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Sorry, Light, Choices

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Out of Darkness into the Light: A Journey of Inner Healing”, p.162, Bantam

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• 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.

  Aimee Mullins

  Running, Sorry, Believe

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

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Sorry, Cereal, Lucky Charms

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• 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.

  Zach Braff

  Sorry, Mean, Thinking

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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

  Karen Armstrong

  Sorry, Compassion, Effort

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

  Drew Carey

  Sorry, Feelings, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Sorry, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Christian, Sorry, Feelings

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• 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.'

  Issan Dorsey

  Teacher, Buddhist, Sorry

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• 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Sorry, Self, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• 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.'

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Book, Self

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