Quotes about self
self centeredness pity
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. Rick Yancey
selfish mean talking
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism. Stephen Colbert
self doubt enormous
The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.
selfish emotional quality
Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.
self mind deception
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. Stefan Zweig
self-esteem character men
There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.
self support temptation
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it. Sonia Sotomayor
selfish people heaven
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
selfish shopping mind
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. Sophie Kinsella
selfish successful men
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail... Thomas Hardy
self devotion
Complete self-devotion is woman's part. Thomas B. Macaulay
self design kind
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. Tim Cook
self morality interest
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. Thomas Jefferson
self mercy fortune
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
self justice ears
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
self age add
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from. Thomas Frank
self-respect fit
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. Thomas Fuller
self events degrees
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. Thomas Keating
self names childhood
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
self absurdity dies
Absurdities die of self-strangulation. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
self discipline denial
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
self authority backbone
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
self position-of-power way
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way. Raymond Arroyo
self may neurology
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
selfish character thinking
I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize." Viggo Mortensen
self way ifs
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
self impossible priceless
What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong. Victoria Moran
self-esteem people world
It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.
self enemy doubt
Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
self-esteem awe-and-wonder conflict
Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.
self guy former
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? Victor Cruz
self saint care
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. Victor Hugo
self denial egotism
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.