Quotes about self
self acting overcoming
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual. John Lithgow
self way stranger
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way. John Larroquette
self suffering world
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able. John Lancaster Spalding
self loathing self-loathing
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. John Barth
self news self-knowledge
Self knowledge is always bad news.
self arrogant impatient
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. John Banville
self doubt self-doubt
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
self soul layers
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
self doe salary
Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self. Jodie Foster
self-esteem snacks childhood
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. Jimmy Buffett
selfish people faults
People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish. Jim Norton
self-esteem men coquette
She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state. Joanna Baillie
self boss pay
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. Jim Rohn
self-improvement firsts better-person
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.
self-esteem discipline erode
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
self insecurity poverty
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.
self-esteem self-confidence critical-decisions
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.
self-confidence self accomplishment
The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .
self-improvement influence
What you become directly influences what you get.
self-esteem ocean new-beginnings
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
self curves use
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
self-esteem greatness goal
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
self-improvement needs searchers
Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for
selfish rights attachment
Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens. George Mason
self people criticism
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. George Lucas
self perfection demand
I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. George MacDonald
selfishness redemption littles
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.
self denial next
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
self criticism indirect
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. Emmet Fox
self narcissistic flip
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love. Emily Levine
self light ability
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light. Emily Post
self consideration manners
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
self heaven earth
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth. Emanuel Swedenborg