Quotes about self
self people different
It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how. Jennifer Lopez
self-esteem giving
You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
self class people
The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before. Jeffrey Pfeffer
self arrogant world
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more. Jean Chretien
self self-control world
You need self-control in an out-of-control world. James C. Collins
self-esteem men discovery
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. James A. Michener
self-improvement faces
You cannot fix what you will not face. James A. Baldwin
self-esteem skins
You've got to be happy in your own skin. Jada Pinkett Smith
self doubt growing
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Jacqueline McKenzie
self choices denial
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. Jacqueline Novogratz
self-esteem care praise
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. Jack Vance
selfish compassion arrogant
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Christopher Hitchens
self-esteem issues lucky
I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
self korea abjection
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
self east void
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. Gary Snyder
self doe poet
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
self civilization growth
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.
self people world
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Gary Zukav
self-improvement next emotion
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
self-esteem attention scarcity
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
self assumption behavior
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences. Gary Becker
self definitions different
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. Hillary Clinton
self work-relationships our-world
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
self years growth
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. Herbert Croly
selfish intelligent individual
The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals. Herbert Simon
self definitions information
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations. Herbert Marcuse
self government succeed
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. Herbert Hoover
self toil limitless
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more. F. Scott Fitzgerald
selfish great-love people
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
self brave illusion
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
self-confidence giving important
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage. Evelyn Lauder
selfish simple people
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. Evgeny Morozov
self denial hardship
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited. Evelyn Waugh