Quotes about self
self matter spirit
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become. Libba Bray
self political denial
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy. Lord Acton
self woe consumers
I am the self-consumer of my woes, John Clare
self ego inappropriate
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny. John Cleese
self ego spotlight
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. John Bradshaw
self knowing-who-you-are opinion
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
self priorities want
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. M. Russell Ballard
self discipline feelings
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. M. Scott Peck
self hands and-love
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
self growth purpose
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
self impossible good-enough
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible. Lupita Nyong'o
self advice interest
Advice from others is always filtered through self interest. James Cook
self mind approval
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind. Napoleon Hill
self blame ill
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete. Epictetus
self degrees apologizing
To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. Newt Gingrich
self law yugoslavia
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. Noam Chomsky
self way imagine
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. John Green
self faces said
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. Cassandra Clare
self order events
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. Caroline Knapp
self want skinny
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. Mindy Kaling
self employed
See yourself as self employed. Pat Summitt
self improvement havens
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
self opinionated sense-of-self
I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self. Paul Eenhoorn
self bully stories
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story. Paul Bettany
self humanity may
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. Marya Mannes
self perfectionist driven
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical. Marya Hornbacher
self pressure social
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. Martha Beck
self essentials whatever-it-takes
Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self
self media transformation
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves. Marshall McLuhan
self insecurity trying
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you. Mark Goulston
self devil purpose
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world. Oswald Chambers
self perspective devil
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.
self self-centered
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.