Quotes about self
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois
selfish purpose watches
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
self wish looks
It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned. Zadie Smith
self fake friendly
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
selfish
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
self order people
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them? Zora Neale Hurston
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
self kind certain
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed. Zach Galifianakis
self form self-education
Traveling is my form of self-education. Yvon Chouinard
self people trying
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
selfish want environment
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
self risk losing
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Zhuangzi
self-confidence mouths taste
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. Sarah Kay
self
I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one. Sara Teasdale
self careers important
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. Sandra Bernhard
self poison half
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
selfish eye heart
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
self heaven world
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. Samuel Rutherford
self-esteem mean law
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason. Samuel Johnson
self incentives emulation
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
self giving growth
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
self doe watches
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful. Sarah Polley
self tools use
The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self. William Howard Taft
self-esteem women persons
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather
self people important
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be. Warren Buffett
self want degrees
The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
self expression generations
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. Vivienne Westwood
self voice development
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant. Vincent Van Gogh
self-improvement way needs
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Wayne Dyer
self tyrants people
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
self serenity rooms
Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.
self decision doubt
Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.
self voice ego
The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.