Quotes about self
self-improvement world finance
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves. Mark Victor Hansen
self-esteem winning giving
Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.
self matter action
Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.
self
No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.
self principles denial
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome. Mark Hopkins
self age reason
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes. Mark Barrowcliffe
self cooking defense
I got into cooking out of self-defense. Mark Bittman
self doe profit
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. Marguerite Yourcenar
self looks denial
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. Mikhail Bakunin
self organization people
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
self beast should
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself. Ivan Turgenev
self live-in-the-moment life-is
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
self medicine understanding
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning. Irvin D. Yalom
self forever treasure
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
self despair pay
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
selfish trainspotting welsh
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. Irvine Welsh
self singing assertive
Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Iris Murdoch
self light secret
We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
self law discipline
My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws. Ida Tarbell
self enthusiasm perpetual
The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm. Huston Smith
self consciousness form
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. Gloria Naylor
self stereotype purity
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money. Gloria Steinem
self issues people
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
self hatred needs
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
self-esteem blessing serious
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
self-esteem democracy bases
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.
self-esteem luxury grew
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
self-esteem passion finding-yourself
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
self logic justified
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
self brave greek
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins
self degrees individualism
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
self taste my-own
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
self giving giver
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.