Quotes about self
self years ive-learned
What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing. Demetri Martin
self earth modesty
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive. Dean Koontz
self humanity sun
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
selfish struggle heart
Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.
self mad doubt
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
self drunk car
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
self defense sin
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
self people motivational-sales
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. Daniel H. Pink
self feelings perception
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. Daniel Goleman
self attention digital
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
self worry attention
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.
self people this-life
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Bob Dylan
self battle trying
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. Billy Campbell
self people waiting
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.
self want principles
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Boris Pasternak
self people needs
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
self may
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. Brigitte Bardot
self-esteem self-confidence thinking
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
self coaching development
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. Brendon Burchard
self-esteem positive-thinking acceptance
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. Brennan Manning
selfish butterfly eagles
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
self choices important
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
self wonder intimacy
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
self-worth play embrace
How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
self who-we-are authentic-self
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
self goal perfection
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
selfish psychology police
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society. Barry Goldwater
self-confidence men track
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
self talent republican
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
self connected universe
The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. Arthur Young
self deceit deceiving
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. Arthur Schopenhauer
self firsts three
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.