Quotes about self
self optimism secret
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success. Sri Chinmoy
self soul doubt
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.
self giving joy
The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.
self mind intellectual
God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.
self rivers joy
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
self trying irony
You should never try irony or self-effacing humour. Tim Robbins
self want tongue
Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults. Thomas Szasz
self discipline drug
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.
self gains succeed
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
self groups helping
How can there be self-help groups? Steven Wright
self boss gas-stations
I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.
self lists motivated
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. Steven Spielberg
self play able
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery. Tom Hollander
self hands naked
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was. Toni Morrison
self tests strange
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
self personal-transformation transition
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new. Tom O'Connor
self age examination
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing? Tom Chatfield
self rocks people
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? Tina Fey
self ruts persons
There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought. Tim LaHaye
self house trying
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. Tim Ferriss
self creating discipline
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
self attention gains
I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.
self decision examination
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
self desire important
Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away. Tibor Fischer
self deception strange
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. Sam Harris
self doubt enormous
The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize. Stephen Colbert
self mind deception
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. Stefan Zweig
self support temptation
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it. Sonia Sotomayor
self devotion
Complete self-devotion is woman's part. Thomas B. Macaulay
self design kind
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. Tim Cook
self morality interest
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. Thomas Jefferson
self mercy fortune
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
self justice ears
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.