Quotes about self
self-esteem believe miracle
We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves. Og Mandino
selfish thinking games
I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways. Norman Mailer
self people may
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. Norman Lear
self inspire trying
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made. Orison Swett Marden
self-esteem vision higher
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
selfish humility eye
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
self effort behaviour
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed Oliver E. Williamson
self discovery realization
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone. Octavio Paz
self humans human-beings
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
self unions sake
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete. Novalis
self world unions
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
self-esteem opportunity individual
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities Norman Vincent Peale
self growth bigger
Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
self plus latent
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
self-esteem thinking made
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
self-esteem thinking forget
Forget yourself! Think courage.
self imagination acting
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. Emile Hirsch
self would-be scrutiny
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. Emile M. Cioran
self rejection substance
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
self sensations
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
self flaws easy
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
self-esteem father rejection
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' Ellen Muth
self movement affirmation
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. Ellen Key
self teach
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. Ellen Glasgow
self personality horizon
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent....
self balance bears
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance. Ellen G. White
self wish sides
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing
self-esteem concern esteem
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. Epictetus
self wealth self-sufficiency
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth . Epicurus
self blame ill
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
self people feelings
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself. Emily Carr
self people touching
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. Emily Blunt
self promise pharisees
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. Emily Bronte