Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

Beatrice Lillie

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Beau Willimon

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

Bear Grylls

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

Bear Grylls

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

Bear Grylls

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

Barry Bonds

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

August Strindberg

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

Audrey Hepburn

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

Audre Lorde

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Audre Lorde

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

Audre Lorde

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Audre Lorde

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

Audre Lorde

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Audre Lorde

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Astrid Lindgren

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

Athol Fugard

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Arthur Peacocke

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Frederic Bastiat

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

Frederic Bastiat

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

Seth

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

Diablo Cody

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Denzel Washington

I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Eric Hoffer

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Louis C. K.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Kurt Vonnegut

Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...