Quotes about self
selfish men inferiority
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. George Santayana
self useless occupation
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
self mystery
The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
self-confidence age jargon
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. George Packer
self world taste
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. George Muller
selfish heart science
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed. G. Stanley Hall
self-esteem struggle adversity
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Fyodor Dostoevsky
self people feelings
And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
self years realised
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere. Chris Pine
self actors littles
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious. Chris Lilley
self stuff sound
Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising. Chris Isaak
self hands brave
They were still in the happier stage 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. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine. F. Scott Fitzgerald
self government ends
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. George W. Bush
self competition important
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition. George Stigler
selfish stupid intelligent
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? George Stephanopoulos
self years six
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland. George Steiner
self investing principles
Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail. George Soros
selfish lying writing
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. George Orwell
self drug had-enough
If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. George Carlin
self
Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.
self decision choices
Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.
selfish leader ignorant
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
self-confidence doubt arrogant
As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt. Garson Kanin
self people absorption
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. Gail Godwin
self-esteem self-respect respect-yourself
When you have self-respect, you have enough. Gail Sheehy
self race speech
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language. George Edward Woodberry
self religion knows
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. George Eliot
self-confidence people addresses
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
self vision height
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
self achievement looks
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
self stupidity world
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
selfish sacrifice judgment
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
self-esteem self-worth hiking
I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem. Fergie