Quotes about self
self years circles
All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning. Stephen Covey
self leader born
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
self analysis evaluation
Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
self empowerment initiative
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
self-esteem creativity accomplishment
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
self discipline good-relationship
Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
self-esteem emotional identity
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
self people purpose
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
self worship hell
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. Thomas Merton
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.
selfish past space
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. Stephen Hawking
self would-be boundaries
One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Stendhal