Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cass McCombs

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

Cat Deeley

I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Charles Hodge

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

Charles Hodge

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

Charles Horton Cooley

If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

Bindi Irwin

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Bill Lee

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

Bill Maher

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

Beth Broderick

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Beth Moore

God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.

Bernard Malamud

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

Bernard of Clairvaux

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

Bob Marley

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Bill Watterson

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

Betty Ford

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

Betty Smith

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

Bette Midler

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Bette Midler

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bennett Cerf

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

We are a long way from a self-sustaining recovery,

Chaz Bono

Being self-supporting is important to me.

John Powell

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

William Shakespeare

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Chelsea Clinton

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Chelsea Handler

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

Charlie Pierce

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Charlie Pierce

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.

Charles Wesley

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

Charley Reese

If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.