Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mortimer Adler

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Paulo Coelho

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Sherry Argov

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Nick Flynn

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

John Ruskin

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Marianne Williamson

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Marianne Williamson

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

Marianne Williamson

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

Marianne Williamson

The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

Marianne Williamson

In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.

Mark Leibovich

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

Michael Bridges

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Mason Cooley

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Mason Cooley

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

Mary Kay Ash

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Mencius

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Melody Beattie

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

Madonna Ciccone

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

Lydia M. Child

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

Lorraine Bracco

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

Melanie Lynskey

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Ahmad Jamal

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,

Abdul Kalam

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Aaron Hill

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Alexandre Dumas

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Jennifer O'Neill

I had low self-esteem.

Jennifer Lopez

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

James A. Michener

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

James A. Baldwin

You cannot fix what you will not face.

Jada Pinkett Smith

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

Jack Vance

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.