Quotes about self
selfish brave victory
And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave? Veronica Roth
selfish brave i-am-selfish
I am selfish. I am brave.
selflessness natural goodness
What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
self anorexia eating-disorder
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach
self self-education stills
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education. Robert Frost
self-confidence views losing
The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
self knows know-how
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate. Rita Dove
self parent underestimate
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. Rita Mae Brown
self lines establishment
Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment. Richard Turner
self way action
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves. Richard Matheson
self harsh condemnation
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
selfish thinking issues
Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. Thucydides
self-esteem self-respect self-control
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
self quiet silent
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Thornton Wilder
self people drunk
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.
self hatred needs
There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
self-esteem men titles
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man. Thomas Paine
self-esteem fighting enemy
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
selfish boys men
Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. Thomas Hughes
self-confidence mind acting
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley
self lord
Lord deliver me from myself. Thomas Browne
self-esteem wonder esteem
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
self-improvement care dislike
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. Thomas Sprat
self best-self priesthood
This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith—a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self. Thomas S. Monson
selfish opportunity miracle
Miracles are everywhere to be found when priesthood callings are magnified. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
self discipline want
Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.
selfish doubt purpose
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
self discipline battle
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.
self diversity black
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen. Thomas Sowell
self media people
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
self people feelings
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
self-esteem taken school
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
self desire want
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.