Quotes about self
selfish thinking ego
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly. K. D. Lang
self arrogance individual
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. Otto Weininger
self common mets
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. Ouida
selfish people wish
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
self imagination people
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life. Oskar Kokoschka
self-esteem world antiques
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. Oscar Wilde
selfish people secret
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
selfish people wish
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
self-esteem people trying
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. Kanye West
self-esteem association needs
Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.
self-esteem men self-respect
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. Samuel Smiles
self self-control form
Self-control is only courage under another form.
self-confidence people delay
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. William Feather
self discipline world
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
self self-control pleasure
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. William F. Buckley, Jr.
self devotion trough
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
self states reliance
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
selfish blow thinking
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever. William Faulkner
self-esteem believe people
You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe. Whoopi Goldberg
self-esteem artist issues
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
self faces facts
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Ronald Reagan
self defense self-defense
Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.
self soldier defense
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.
selfish educational today
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature. Sai Baba
self-esteem lying believe
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. Saint Augustine
self two soul
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
self cities two
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
self space light
And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.
self cities two
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
self effort trying
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre. Wislawa Szymborska
self cleaning revelations
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
self eyebrows gold
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. W. Averell Harriman
selfish artist
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. W. Eugene Smith