Quotes about self
self-esteem believe stronger
Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. Sarah Dessen
self effort risk
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. Rose Wilder Lane
self two groups
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
self goal dinner
I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool. Roseanne Barr
self done negative
I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief. Ronnie O'Sullivan
self-esteem thinking people
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. Roger Ebert
self degrees
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. Rod Taylor
self ego feelings
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent. Rod Serling
selfish writing embrace
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.
self world splits
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are? Robin Morgan
self declaration
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. Robin McKinley
self play realization
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives. Roberto Assagioli
self-esteem believe people
You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe. Whoopi Goldberg
self-esteem artist issues
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
self faces facts
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Ronald Reagan
self defense self-defense
Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.
self soldier defense
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.
selfish educational today
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature. Sai Baba
self-esteem lying believe
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. Saint Augustine
self two soul
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
self cities two
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
self space light
And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.
self cities two
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
self effort trying
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre. Wislawa Szymborska
self cleaning revelations
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
self eyebrows gold
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. W. Averell Harriman
selfish artist
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. W. Eugene Smith
selfish purpose watches
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers. W. E. B. Du Bois
self wish looks
It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned. Zadie Smith
self fake friendly
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
selfish
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
self order people
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them? Zora Neale Hurston
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.