Quotes about self
self-confidence thinking source
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me. Gabourey Sidibe
self talking weight
Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke. Gabriel Iglesias
self skins safe
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
selfish long enjoy
You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something. Frank Iero
self color doubt
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Chris Hedges
self next pity
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. Chris Hardwick
self names fire
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. Christopher Alexander
self-esteem love-yourself desire
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable Christine Feehan
self giving doubt
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves. Christian Wiman
self-confidence self young
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young. Christie Hefner
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
self names ego
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
self morbid cures
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
self healthy doubt
I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy. J. Cole
selfish comedian
A lot of comedians are selfish. J. B. Smoove
self cures righteousness
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. J. C. Ryle
self people shapes
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
self people savior
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
self long prejudice
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. Isaac Watts
self space mind
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society Irving Howe
self people community
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message ... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation. Irving Kristol
self want employee
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work. Indra Nooyi
self
He's very much independent and on his own and self-confident.
self-esteem hate long
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. Friedrich Nietzsche
self path firsts
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
self doe matter
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
self soul events
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
self african-tribes fearless
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect. Frantz Fanon
self fearless despair
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
self arrogance age
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness. Franz Grillparzer
selfish real who-i-am
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. Jeanette Winterson
selfish want life-is
I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
self people feels
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.