Quotes about self
self truth-is shocking
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. Djuna Barnes
self-esteem esteem
Don't be afraid of your own strength. Diane von Furstenberg
self people calling
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. David Brooks
self sympathetic
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
selfish live-life imagination
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. Anne Sullivan
self tasks firsts
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit. Aimee McPherson
self slave made
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. Alexis de Tocqueville
selfish passion love-is
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Alexandre Dumas
self-love looks tough
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there. Alexandra Fuller
selfish character thinking
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change. Richard G. Scott
self sometimes sane
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. Brandi Carlile
selfish love-is light
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. Bram Stoker
self doubt moments
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for self-doubt. It is a moment of hope. Boris Johnson
self cynical interest
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
self calm patient
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite. Booker T. Washington
self people this-life
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Bob Dylan
self battle trying
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. Billy Campbell
self people waiting
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.
self want principles
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Boris Pasternak
self people needs
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
self may
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. Brigitte Bardot
self-esteem self-confidence thinking
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
self coaching development
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. Brendon Burchard
self-esteem positive-thinking acceptance
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. Brennan Manning
selfish butterfly eagles
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
self choices important
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
self wonder intimacy
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
self-worth play embrace
How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
self who-we-are authentic-self
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
self-esteem loss kind
Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem. Brian Tracy
self-esteem use reputation
Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
self focus demand
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.