Quotes about self
self-esteem thinking people
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think. Sherry Argov
selfish hate heart
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin) Sherrilyn Kenyon
self imperfection deny
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood. Nicolas Chamfort
self purpose pity
...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah - Nick Vujicic
self ego fiction
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir. Nick Flynn
self order ego
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.
self personality rude
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on. Nicholson Baker
self cities two
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) Nora Ephron
self
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self. Nikolai Berdyaev
self discipline wish
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. Nikola Tesla
self sea action
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
selfish struggle heart
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence-by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. ... So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
self joy sanctuary
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
self practice snow
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
self risk humiliation
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
self issues stories
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. Nicole Holofcener
self empty-rooms doors
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough. Nicole Krauss
self logic accepting
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
self objectivity knowing
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love. N. T. Wright
self way vices
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.
selfish flower matter
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy. Mort Sahl
self rejection doubt
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection. Monica Raymund
self want pansies
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are. Montgomery Clift
self identity way
I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft. Monica Lewinsky
self careers people
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. Miranda Otto
self keys worry
We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not. Miranda Hart
self immaturity delay
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. Mike Murdock
self
Your self-portait decides your conduct.
self long-ago sometimes
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Mignon McLaughlin
self born
Born to myself, I like myself alone. John Wilmot
self practice common-sense
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. John Wooden
self evaluation inevitable
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
selfish struggle practice
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. John Ruskin