Quotes about self
self diversity black
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen. Thomas Sowell
self media people
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
self people feelings
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
self-esteem taken school
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
self desire want
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
self path resistance
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
self-esteem ignorance people
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.
self cost facts
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
selfish war care
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
selfish war ignorance
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.
self mirrors wife
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror. Robert Morley
self color race
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity. Robert Griffin III
self-esteem pride perfect
The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride. Robert H. Schuller
self-esteem mean doubt
To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
self soul inability
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.
self giving people
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on. Robert Greene
self soul body
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is, Walt Whitman
self body celebrate
I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
self-esteem leaves-of-grass goodness
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
self hands civilization
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves. Saul Bellow
self world
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
selfish heart people
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
self talking shells
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. Sarah Dessen
selfish care lines
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
self brave world
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
self over-you world
Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
self-reliance weak lock-and-key
Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.
self feelings together
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
self-esteem believe stronger
Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
self effort risk
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. Rose Wilder Lane
self two groups
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
self goal dinner
I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool. Roseanne Barr
self-esteem roots evil
Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.