Quotes about self
self-knowledge
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. Coco Chanel
self done lasts
The last three films I've done are about self-immolation. Claire Forlani
self justice tests
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. Clarence Day
self-esteem done self-determination
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me. Elizabeth Taylor
self people world
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't. Eli Pariser
self media two
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.
self democracy addresses
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
self want self-knowledge
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. Elias Canetti
self-worth ideas actors
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. Elia Kazan
self suffering doubt
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
self self-conscious conscious
I was always a self-conscious person.
selfish mistake home
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess? B. C. Forbes
self world firsts
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. Ashleigh Brilliant
self warning caution
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
self giving done
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. Arthur Hugh Clough
selfish acting consuming
Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. Alessandro Nivola
self outsiders congress
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. Aleksandar Hemon
self hatred form
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
selfish mistake emotion
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
selfish love-is ideas
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. Aleister Crowley
self-confidence men numbers
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
self perfection path
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
self care grooming
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. Albert Einstein
self worry understanding
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
selfish feelings religion
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
self hunted self-respect
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. Alfred Whitney Griswold
selfish acceptance boss
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead
self oneness diversity
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
self finals intellect
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
self-esteem quality description
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. Alfred Lunt
self-esteem needs nourishment
There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem
self feet knowing
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing. Alfred Kazin