Quotes about self
self mind speak
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind Ednita Nazario
self cells people
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. Edna O'Brien
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. Edna Ferber
self race our-actions
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Edna St. Vincent Millay
self people
What is best for people is what they do for themselves. Benjamin Franklin
self enemy ifs
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
self-esteem resentment weak
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Barbara Sher
self-esteem good-luck thinking
Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
self retrospect easy
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
selfish sacrifice leader
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction. Arthur Koestler
self evil groups
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
self views emergencies
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.
self-confidence expression people
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
selfish party men
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.
self individual tendencies
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
self society tests
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
self realization existence
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. Arthur Miller
self humans human-beings
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
selfish accomplishment tennis
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me. Arthur Ashe
self machines schwarzenegger
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. Arnold Schwarzenegger
self-confidence self people
Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you. Azim Premji
self-esteem lying matter
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. Azar Nafisi
self issues evil
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
selfish responsibility reality
When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility. Ayelet Waldman
self world soil
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed. Ayn Rand
self-esteem self-confidence men
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.
self-esteem thinking reliance
Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.
self-esteem independent men
A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.
self practice atheism
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
selfish
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
self-esteem greatness men
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
self-esteem men selfishness
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
self-esteem self-confidence reason
There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.