Quotes about self
selfish easy
Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage. Simon Sinek
selfish opposites firsts
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
self leader care
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
self cost interest
The cost of leadership is self-interest.
self knowing generations
Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate. Simon Pegg
self looks might
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring
self law democracies-have
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
self inappropriate planets
If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible. Simon Doonan
self firsts contemplation
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular. Thomas Merton
selfish free-gifts perfection
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.
self imagination long
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.
self worship hell
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
self true-self creator
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
self problem existence
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
self-esteem people shining
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
self needs firsts
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
self order identity
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.
selfish believe men
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
self disease contemplation
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle
self evil slavery
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
self firsts sin
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
self-esteem mind esteem
Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. Tony Dorsett
selfish tragedy realizing
Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
self development needs
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. Tony Campolo
selfish angel devil
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find... Tom Waits
self-esteem heart stranger
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) Steven Heighton
self-esteem feel-good meals
Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal. Steve-O
self suffering demand
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves? Steve Perry
self-esteem firsts world
The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first. Steve McQueen
self advice levels
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. Steve Martin
self talking comedy
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. Steve Carell
self people way
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
self-confidence flirting lines
I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.