Quotes about self
selfish service-to-others behavior
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. Joshua Harris
selfish stupid sleep
I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun. Laurell K. Hamilton
self-esteem style
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. Linda Ellerbee
self bird tree
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs. Pema Chodron
self essence bravery
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
selfish principles thinker
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers Phil Collins
self worship enough
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. Peter Coyote
self childhood feelings
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to. Piers Anthony
self self-pity pity
self-pity is better than none. Phyllis Diller
self broken proud
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Philip Pullman
self musical want
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. Rachel Cusk
self bored awful
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested. Rachel Cohn
self goal lines
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything. Queen Rania of Jordan
selfish men doctors
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors. Queen Victoria
self-esteem trying helping
I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all. Queen Latifah
self brave enough
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
self deception self-deception
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. Plato
self essence self-knowledge
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,
self curiosity want
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion. Julian Barnes
self giving firsts
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. Josiah Royce
self fire serenity
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with. Joseph J. Ellis
self done matter
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess. Kobe Bryant
self-esteem men numbers
The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth. Kofi Annan
self order entrepreneur
Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
self want rooms
Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct. Kendrick Lamar
self faults virtue
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. Kelly Miller
self acting shallow
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often. Kelly Reilly
self want chance
I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have. Katy Perry
self-esteem nurture
Find out what your gift is and nurture it.
selfish destroying-ourselves force
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. Ralph Steadman
self way firsts
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Ramakrishna
selfish eye love-is
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.
self self-realization knows
To know one's Self is to be blissful always. Ramana Maharshi