Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Lambert

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

Adlai Stevenson

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Edward Abbey

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

Stephen Jay Gould

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Stephen Jay Gould

Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

Stephen Jay Gould

Before Kuhn , most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.

Robert Kiyosaki

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

Robert Kiyosaki

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Dorothea Brande

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Donna Summer

You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

Don Rittner

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

Dale Earnhardt

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Dale Carnegie

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

Dale Carnegie

In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

Dale Carnegie

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Dale Carnegie

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Dale Carnegie

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

Dale Carnegie

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

Craig Sheffer

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

Claude C. Hopkins

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

Clara Barton

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.

Daniel Smith

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

Daniel Radcliffe

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Daniel Radcliffe

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Dan Gelber

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Dan Harmon

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Cynthia Heimel

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

Clive Barker

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

Dylan Moran

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

E. B. White

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.