Quotes about self
self-confidence firsts principles
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. Marie Curie
self kind indifference
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
self self-control your-freedom
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
self vanity goal
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
self views trying
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind. Marge Piercy
self car world
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world. Mark Zuckerberg
self young-entrepreneurs important
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
selfish giving charity
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish. Ted Turner
self glowing halos
I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo. Ted Nugent
self reaching abraham
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
self shields naked
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. Theodore Roethke
self-esteem soul should
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
self evil relax
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. Theodore Roosevelt
self discipline formal-education
With self-discipline, all things are possible
selfish men thinking
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. Theodor Reik
self secret forget
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
self-esteem goal results
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. Theodore Kaczynski
self nests indolence
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward. Theodore L. Cuyler
self evil culture
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness. Theodor Adorno
self entwined existence
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
self acting plugs
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. Thandie Newton
self people needs
People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves. Terry McMillan
selfish determined helpless
Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. Margaret Mitchell
selfish yankees helping
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler
selfish silly love-you
I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
selfish mean men
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself Margaret Heffernan
self people challenges
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. Margaret Halsey
self identity depends
Who you are depends on who you meet. Margaret J. Wheatley
self armor slave
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. Margaret Fuller
self issues guy
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy. Marcus Brigstocke
self determined pompous
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
selfish integrity common
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity. Marcus Garvey
self civilization black-history
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.