Quotes about self
self soul immortality
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. James Anthony Froude
selfish sage fool
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
self cities people
Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another. Jacque Fresco
self should-have years
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going. Henry Rollins
selfish love-you eye
I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
selfish heart people
Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off. Helen Hunt
self-esteem esteem ifs
If I am not I, who will be? Henry David Thoreau
self people moral
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually Malcolm X
selfish men purpose
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. Mahatma Gandhi
self people four
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. James Q. Wilson
self matter spirit
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become. Libba Bray
self world interest
For the world is only governed by self-interest. Friedrich Schiller
self essence helping
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. Franklin D. Roosevelt
self individual-effort civilization
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.
selfish war ill-will
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.
selfish criticism grind
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.
selfish men eagles
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
self forever republic
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
self profound understanding
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. George Friedman
self iraq people
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces. George Galloway
self england band
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. Jon Landau
self practice world
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. Jon Kabat-Zinn
self joy body
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is. Joko Beck
self belief massive
I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up. Johnny Vegas
self order years
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. Lynn Margulis
self bass arguing
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. Ludwig van Beethoven
self improvement creation
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
self feelings brain
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead. Ludwig Wittgenstein
self world limits
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
self justice vices
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? Luc de Clapiers
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron
self envy doubt
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
self likes vote
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance. Lord Acton