Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Kanye West

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

Joyce Meyer

When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

Joyce Meyer

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

Joyce Meyer

Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.

Joyce Meyer

We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Paul Tillich

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Paul Theroux

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Paul Krassner

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

Paul Keating

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.

Paul Klee

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Paul Klee

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

Paul Krugman

Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies — but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

Paul Davies

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

Patrick Stump

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

Patrick Stump

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

Patrick Dempsey

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Pankaj Mishra

When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

Paramahansa Yogananda

We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Paramahansa Yogananda

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

Owen Hart

YOU'RE TOO DAMN SELFISH!!!

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

Patty Duke

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

Paul Twitchell

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

Judith Viorst

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.