Quotes about self
self games names
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. Maxwell Maltz
self-esteem vices opinion
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
self-esteem important cybernetics
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
self-esteem behavior-change keys
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
self cybernetics determine
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
self-esteem emotional poison
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
self-esteem together cybernetics
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
self-esteem mean resilience
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up. Maya Angelou
selfish school merit
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish. Max Stirner
self each-day may
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.
self liberation i-can
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
self problem
One of my problems is to find the self. Max Beckmann
self understanding consciousness
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
self perspective world
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.
self-esteem opposites higher
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves. Marilyn vos Savant
self-esteem safe-environment nerves
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
self casting-off generosity
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. Marilynne Robinson
self essence independence
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Maria Montessori
self tools emotion
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion. Matisyahu
self understanding mind
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry. Matsuo Basho
selfish team sacrifice
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish. Pat Riley
self people poor
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much. Paddy Considine
self-esteem pride lust
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic." P. J. O'Rourke
self-esteem lying self-love
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. Plato
self contentment littles
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
self giving matter
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
self choices soul
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
self people democracy
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. Paulo Freire
self world born
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
self-esteem goldfish bowls
I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl. Paula Fox
self-confidence enemy monsters
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. Paula Cole
selfish political climate
If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish. Phil Jones
self support definitions
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. Phil McGraw