Quotes about self
self desire world
Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not Marcus Garvey
selfish animal men
Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. Michael Fox
self order owl
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike. Michael Faraday
self enjoy reserved
I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone Melissa Sue Anderson
self want loved-ones
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones. Melinda Gates
self-esteem believe feels
Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. Melissa Etheridge
self people world
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. Michael McKean
self publicity privacy
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity. Michael Hutchence
self loathing neurotic
I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic. Megan Fox
self lord
Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?. Max Muller
self kansas heaven
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick. Max Lucado
self-confidence age weakness
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. May Sarton
self innocence pure
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
self class two
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
self people solitude
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
self long machines
For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...
self pleasure conscious
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. Max Eastman
selfish rap mean
I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you. Matthew McConaughey
self actors stuff
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff. Matthew Lewis
selfish mind evolution
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. Matt Ridley
self feminist black-motivational
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. Maya Angelou
self-esteem self-confidence apollo
Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
self long trying
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true! Matthew Arnold
self political ordinary
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
selfish fighting people
I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment. Matt Diaz
self envy interesting
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting. Meg Wolitzer
self pieces mosaics
To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
self ideas personality
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well. Maxwell Maltz
self adequate realistic
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
self-esteem body spirit
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
self-esteem moving opportunity
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
self hands phrases
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
self keys discipline
Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.