Quotes about self
self may pockets
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket. William Jennings Bryan
selfish ambition class
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
selfish common interest
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
self sea echoes
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth. Virginia Woolf
self-esteem pay-the-price self-respect
One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Woodrow Wilson
selfish character men
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
self-esteem men known
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
selfish sacrifice political
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
self cities two
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God. Saint Augustine
self effort trying
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre. Wislawa Szymborska
self cleaning revelations
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
self eyebrows gold
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. W. Averell Harriman
selfish artist
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. W. Eugene Smith
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois
selfish purpose watches
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
self wish looks
It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned. Zadie Smith
self fake friendly
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
selfish
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
self order people
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them? Zora Neale Hurston
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
self kind certain
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed. Zach Galifianakis
self form self-education
Traveling is my form of self-education. Yvon Chouinard
self people trying
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
selfish want environment
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
self self-centered truly-happy
You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist. Zig Ziglar
self risk losing
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Zhuangzi
self-confidence giving style
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always. Yves Saint Laurent
self actors gigs
What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable. William H. Macy
self incomplete sentences
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
self gentleman return
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. William Hazlitt
self excellence mistress
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
self-esteem thinking people
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.