(332 quotes found)
“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
“There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”
Herodotus
“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
John W. Gardner
“Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept”
William Somerset Maugham
“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.”
Millicent Fenwick
“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
Buddha
“The scavenger of misery is pity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
