I feel useless: Have you ever been in this situation where you question your worth and contribution to the world? I know I have! Although a part of my brain says it is false – another part indulges in this thought process of feeling useless and worthless. In this article, we talk about the motivation for feeling useless, some inspirational feeling useless quotes and what to do if you ever feel useless.
No matter how useless we feel, there must be a way out. A sense of hopelessness ensues us when we think about this. It easily transforms into the feeling of victim and feeling helpless. But our destiny or fate depends on our decisions. If we give up even before trying, life will seem hopeless. We have to find some strength within ourselves to fight this feeling of useless or worthless. It is still a matter of choice, finding this strength is not easy, but might just be the only way out of this feeling
I feel useless
One of the most beautiful things about your emotions is that they’re the purest form of feedback. Each emotion tries to tell you something by making you feel something. If you’re in this emotional state which says I feel useless – then it is a clear signal to listen. Most times, we’re taught to ignore negative feelings and distract ourselves. But negative feelings and emotions help us. They tell us what needs to be done.
What does it mean when your dominant emotion says – I feel useless?
- It is questioning your value and contribution to the world or the cause you feel strongly for.
- Maybe it is asking you to consider your life and evaluate what you stand for. In other words, it is demanding to know your standards for life.
- Indicating what matters the most to you in life and perhaps it is a call to make you focus on that
As you can see, the moment you say I feel useless, you’ll need to counter it with the question why? If you dig in deep to understand what this emotion means, you can start understanding how this can impact your life. Once you understand, you can strategise on using it to give you the best results for your life.
Feeling useless quotes
With this background of feeling useless and worthless, I’d like to talk about a few feeling useless quotes to fill us with some inspiration. Feeling useless or worthless are dangerous thoughts and we have to address them quickly. It is natural for us all to go through this feeling and think that we are lost. However, we can find meaning in our values and contribute to the world around us.
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Just because you think you’re worthless doesn’t make it true
The best way to not feel worthless is to get up and do something
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else – Charles Dickens
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.– Thomas A. Edison
I feel useless quotes
These feeling worthless quotes are an indicator that there is value even in the simplest thing. We often tend to ignore this because we have a huge outcome associated with our existence. Our life is simple, right? We can make a difference even by doing the smallest things. These quotes act as a reminder that our life can be a powerful value to answer the thoughts of feeling worthless or useless.
Feeling worthless quotes
These feeling-useless quotes were not supposed to be comprehensive but just to give you a flavour that you’re not alone. If we introspect enough and listen to our thoughts deeply enough, we’ll be visited by the feeling of useless and worthless emotions. The question however is how you deal with it. As we know, the only way and answer for your emotions is in your actions. The tricky bit however is to motivate yourself into these actions when you’re overwhelmed by feeling useless and worthless.
Here are 5 such brilliant feeling worthless quotes
If someone tells you often enough you’re worthless, you start to believe it.– Kierston Wareing
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.– E.W.Howe
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.– Thomas Carlyle
Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn’t somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.– Lynda Resnick
Feeling worthless quotes
If you ever feel useless
If you feel useless, there are three things you need to remember:
- It is natural to feel useless at times
- This emotion is telling you something and wants you to do something
- Listen to it and find a way to act on it
Natural to feel this: You see, everything is to do with the meaning you associate with your experiences in life. It is natural to feel useless and worthless. But please don’t let that overtake you. You’ve got to find a way to respond and listen to these emotions. They still are trying to tell you that something is not working. Before falling prey to distractions, just take a moment to recognize and feel proud that your emotional side is trying to tell you something.
It is only one emotion: You may choose to listen or not but if you ever feel useless – remember that it is only an emotion. You also have other emotions of love, excitement, passion and so many others which makes life fascinating. The feeling of useless emotion might be shadowing your other thoughts. But stop for a while and take a look at your life as an overall picture. It can’t be useless. If you ever feel useless, it is perhaps only a lens through which you’re looking at yourself. It may have some truth to it, but won’t be the ultimate truth.
The emotion is trying to tell you something: Instead of treating that as the only thought, treat it the way it should be. Emotion is trying to tell you something. It only is telling that if you ever feel useless – do something about it. And don’t please fall into a trap that leads you to give up. It doesn’t always do great justice to you. Please ask for help – there are some very good organisations and individuals out there who want to be helpful. It might hurt the ego a bit, but please do ask.
I feel useless – so what? We all do and need to because it makes you human. But the human part is also about finding a way around it and doing justice to your gift of life.
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Truly liked the quote :-D and, a wonderful post on the positive vibes….truly inspiring… :-)
Thank you Maniparna :). The moment I saw this quote I told myself – Wow! I would be foolish not to write on this one and I really like how it is being received. I am kinda liking doing the quote of the day section and it is being received really well. Hope people are really liking it as much as I think or hopefully even more :)
Very nice quote Vinay with a nice write up. Like a pendulum, sometimes the mind swings between Yes and No. If it sticks around for long at the No end, we need need to pull it back to the Yes end. :-)
Thank you Somali. I like the reference to the pendulum, I guess we all swing in different directions when we are faced with a problem and eventually find a way out of it. Probably the trick is never to lose faith in ourselves and stay strong in the wake of these problems. It sure makes our lives a lot simpler and easier :)
Yeh..Vinay…well said..standing in front of mirror and boosting your confidence is really a great idea…it really works…
Vinay from past few days I am not getting option to directly post my comments…Everytime I have to enter name, email address, etc…have you changed the pattern for posting comments….If not I think It might be problem with my chrome cookies….
Hi Mayuresh :). Kinda ironic but that’s something which has never worked for me, maybe cos I end up looking at myself more than what I am supposed to do :D :D. He he, on a more serious note, I guess a lot of things work for a lot of us and it is really interesting to see how well all these solutions work and make our lives a little better and a lot healthier.
Sorry about the commenting option mate. Earlier I was using the disqus commenting option which perhaps opened the guest posting quite easily. But it had its own issues. It would truncate the comment section after about 2 or 3 of them. I mean to say that for longer articles, the page showed up pretty bad and I was forced to move on to this one. Your chrome is working ideally I believe, it is just that the new theme is not very compatible with disqus. I would have loved it if they had rectified the issue. Have contacted them and hoping that they will update on it soon.
Sorry for the incovenience my friend, will try to get it sorted from them soon.
awesome vinay ji!!!! wonderful quote too sir
Thank you Bindu :). I loved writing about this one, I somehow felt I could relate a little stronger to this one..
Sometimes it wonders me why is it happening to me only. But, it’s after going through some articles that I realised I’m not the only person (duniya mein kitna gham hai, mera gham kitna kam hai :) )
Thank you, Vinay.. for keeping our spirits high.
He he, you are never alone mate. I used to wonder the same and at some point I told myself that if it is happening to me, there will be atleast one soul out there who would have faced something similar. And then the thought was how to get better at it and now the thought is how to make our lives better inspite of all these. I have personally liked the transition and feel really great to be able to connect over these real life experiences.
GREAT, i sit a many times ideal doing nothing but feeling great about myself that atleast something i had contributed to earth.hahahaa
He he he :D Indeed Suraj, we have a lot more things to be proud of than we actually do : D