Quotes about self
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
self machines 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. Arnold Schwarzenegger
self-esteem self-confidence men
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
self self-respect quests
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
self-esteem reality men
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.
self-esteem loss kind
Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem. Brian Tracy
selfish thinking what-if
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish. Brad Pitt
self citizens deodorant
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. Jan Morris
selfish men being-selfish
Men tend to be selfish. Caprice Bourret
selfish humble conceited
"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior C. S. Lewis
self crafts firsts
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. Bryant H. McGill
self defining assertive
Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.
self abuse care
Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
self peaceful keep-smiling
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
self wild-imagination literature
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! Jane Austen
self compromise
Don't compromise your self, you're all you got. Janis Joplin
self talking agony
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. Jane Smiley
self-esteem thinking people
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously. bell hooks
self female searching-for-love
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
self expression people
Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it. Arianna Huffington
self denial asceticism
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.' Dietrich Bonhoeffer
self sound hypocritical
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. Diane Abbott
self mentor may
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships. Derrick Bell
self civilization ignorant
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation. Derrick Jensen
self earth modesty
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive. Dean Koontz
self mad doubt
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
self done lasts
The last three films I've done are about self-immolation. Claire Forlani
self people waiting
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform. Billy Campbell
self want principles
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Boris Pasternak
self people needs
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
self may
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. Brigitte Bardot
self who-we-are authentic-self
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.