Quotes about self
self feelings jeering
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver. Herman Melville
self people taught
Many people who excel are self-taught. Herb Ritts
self tactics satire
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. Herb Caen
self satisfaction smugness
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
self independence enterprise
All great enterprises are self-supporting. Henry David Thoreau
self sobriety society
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
self may gains
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
self people bottom
You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct. Jillian Michaels
selfish dirty mean
Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.
self omission quality
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. Jeremy Collier
selfish believe resilience
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity. Jennifer Egan
self brain desire
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. Jeff Vandermeer
self people needs
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love. Jean Vanier
self kind sophisticated
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind. Jil Sander
self answers loathing
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that. Jhonen Vasquez
selfish people trying
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship. Jhene Aiko
self love-to-read self-inflicted
I love to read. My education is self-inflicted Groucho Marx
selfish expression ends
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express. Graham Greene
selfish thinking people
People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know. Gisele Bundchen
self taught actors
I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived. Harpo Marx
self self-respect liberty
Self respect is impossible without liberty.... Harriet Beecher Stowe
selfish church phases
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
self inquiry patient
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
selfish writing audience-of-one
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself. Harper Lee
self-esteem looks persons
A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks. Halle Berry
self acting talent
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. Gregory Peck
self people identity
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out. Gregory Benford
self deception poetic
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. Gregory Maguire
self redemption dry
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption. Horace Bushnell
selfish team opportunity
I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that. Hope Solo
self execution precision
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky
self lasting-happiness firsts
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
self names attention
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation. Hugh Prather