Quotes about self
self-esteem acceptance self-confidence
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. Abraham Maslow
self perfection simplicity
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.
self grace unbroken
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. Abraham Lincoln
self-esteem thinking fit
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
selfish adversity light
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
selfish acting consuming
Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. Alessandro Nivola
self outsiders congress
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. Aleksandar Hemon
self hatred form
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
self-esteem undervalue
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Samuel Johnson
self dungeons prison
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. Cyril Connolly
self optimism negative
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
selfish boredom bitterness
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.
self-worth joy important
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives. Dan Millman
self black church
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence. Cornel West
self community black
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
self expression people
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
self talking transforming
You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
self leader black
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
self pieces might
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.
self-esteem love-yourself able
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
self meals blanket
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals. Colson Whitehead
self-esteem knowing purpose
I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external. Common
self soul intuition
A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
self maps treasure
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.
self ideas generosity
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
selfishness may cold
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. E. W. Howe
self government substitutes
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government. Dwight Morrow
self reason appeals
All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. Coventry Patmore
self helping self-help
Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! Mika
selfish kids inspire
When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them. Louis C. K.
self helping shows
I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
self-esteem
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. Amity Gaige