Quotes about self
self giving judging
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance. William Hazlitt
self and-love sincerity
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
self fame interest
The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest. William Dean Howells
selfish race curse
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone
self-confidence important gold
Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency. Wen Jiabao
self ifs paid
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. Wendell Pierce
self self-respect loses
You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect. Wendelin Van Draanen
self restraint killjoy
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. Wendell Berry
self issues abuse
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
self greed lazy
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
self choices world
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
self interesting people
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people. Walter Pater
self-esteem women persons
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather
self people important
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be. Warren Buffett
self want degrees
The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
self expression generations
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. Vivienne Westwood
self voice development
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant. Vincent Van Gogh
self-improvement way needs
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Wayne Dyer
self tyrants people
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
self serenity rooms
Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.
self decision doubt
Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.
self voice ego
The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.
selfish thinking people
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.
self practice two
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.
self-worth things-in-life wells
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
self-esteem believe successful
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
self connections encounters
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.
self-love and-love overcoming
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
self forgiving shame
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
self-esteem approval acquisition
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.
self long
As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me. Walter de La Mare
self interest benevolence
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. Walter Bagehot
self order world
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them Walter Benjamin