Quotes about self
selfish men pigs
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. Lewis Black
self stupidity irritated
When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! Lewis Carroll
self order two
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. Leon Uris
selfish love-you mean
The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love. Joyce Meyer
self deceit self-sufficient
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. Joseph Stowell
self-esteem rare-moments seeing
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. Joseph Wood Krutch
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
selfish roots desire
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Joseph Campbell
self hero-journey favors
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
self historical ifs
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
self expression shapes
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing Karen Horney
self deception may
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
self valuable search-for-truth
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
selfishness results humans
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Julio Cortazar
self-esteem humble sunset
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. John Madden
self expression design
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. John Malkovich
self blood government
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty. John Lothrop Motley
self stupidity use
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates. John Locke
self doubt might
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
self-esteem philosophical men
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
self feelings age
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either. John Leo
self acting overcoming
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual. John Lithgow
self way stranger
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way. John Larroquette
self suffering world
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able. John Lancaster Spalding
self loathing self-loathing
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. John Barth
self news self-knowledge
Self knowledge is always bad news.
self arrogant impatient
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. John Banville
self doubt self-doubt
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
self soul layers
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
self doe salary
Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self. Jodie Foster
self-esteem snacks childhood
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. Jimmy Buffett
selfish people faults
People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish. Jim Norton
self-esteem men coquette
She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state. Joanna Baillie