Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Audie Murphy

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Alexander Pope

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Annette Funicello

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Crystal Reed

I'm not interested in fame at all.

Confucius

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame separates you from life.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Annie Lennox

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

John McKee

Those Hall of Fame jockeys, they all worked really hard to get where they got. What we younger riders have to do is persevere to follow in their footsteps.

Michael Armstrong

are not in the consumer's interest and should be denied.

Elouise Cobell

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dave Kraft

I've always been interested in politics but couldn't get involved before because of my career.

David Lagercrantz

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Julie Furbacher

I've always been interested in dogs. I just do it out of love for them.

Tony Richardson

I've always been more interested in the kitchen-sink elements,

Brian Griese

I've always had a lot of respect for Rod, and if they have interest in me, I would love to go up there and see what the interest is.