Quotes about self
self-esteem democracy bases
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy. Gloria Steinem
self-esteem luxury grew
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
self-esteem passion finding-yourself
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
self logic justified
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
self brave greek
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins
self degrees individualism
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
self taste my-own
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
self giving giver
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
self law foundation
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation. J. M. Coetzee
self broken half
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
self holocaust rabbits
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.
self ability findings
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect. J. K. Rowling
self blood hatred
Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.
self goal firsts
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
self essence culture
The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. H. L. Mencken
self worry labels
Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
self-worth shields slave
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
selfish years wife
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. Greg LeMond
self voice echoes
I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born. Jack London
self curiosity atheism
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. J. William Fulbright
selfish judging quality
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. H. P. Lovecraft
self punishment defense
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. Georg Buchner
self defense murder
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
self challenges company
Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company. Gary Hamel
self hypocrisy deception
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. Friedrich Nietzsche
self-esteem thinking esteem
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking
self community political
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. Jerry Brown
self willpower spirit
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. Jerry Bridges
self
I don't think there's any question, ... that we need Jermaine to be his old self. Billy Beane
self enchantment found
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
self historical-knowledge achievement
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. Hu Shih
self world knowledge-of-god
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
self views style
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads. Alexander Theroux