Quotes about self
selfish sensual failing
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
self world mould
I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
self hands effort
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.
self law good-man
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
self flames ice
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.
selfish men growth
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.
self soul society
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
self virtue comprehension
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
self-esteem new-beginnings men
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
selfish anatomy-and-physiology astrology
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
self-esteem wish esteem
I wish I had more confidence. Sean William Scott
self crafts way
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft. Sean Penn
self investigation
Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation. Lily King
self development wealth
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development. Li Keqiang
selfish soul religion
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. Lenny Bruce
self-harm kids hard-work
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm. Laurie Halse Anderson
self-esteem inspiration pounds
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
self makers ends
The end of every maker is himself. Thomas Aquinas
self hero-journey favors
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, Joseph Campbell
self practice desire
Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates]. Joseph Pilates
selfish being-selfish filled
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live. Jules Renard
self bored insult
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
self consciousness stride
We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. Joshua Leonard
self understanding inner-peace
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. Joshua L. Liebman
selfish heart people
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it. Josh Billings
self ideas deception
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. Karl Jaspers
self opposites admiration
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. Karl Barth
self effort world
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. K. Eric Drexler
selfish thinking ego
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly. K. D. Lang
self arrogance individual
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. Otto Weininger
self common mets
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. Ouida
selfish people wish
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
self imagination people
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life. Oskar Kokoschka