Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane McGonigal

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Cassandra Clare

You cannot hide your true self forever.

Christina Ricci

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Chris Gardner

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.

Gertrude Stein

I wish that I was where I am.

Georges St-Pierre

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Halle Berry

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

Guy Finley

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Harold Prince

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gerald R. Ford

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

Jim Jarmusch

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's -consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

Gillian Anderson

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Iyanla Vanzant

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

Immanuel Kant

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

Georg Buchner

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.

Adam Jones

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

Abraham Maslow

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

Dave Eggers

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

David Lee Roth

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

Danica McKellar

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

Daisaku Ikeda

The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

Billy Graham

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!