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 discipline obsession
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline. Vikram Seth
self sides ends
Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence. Viktor E. Frankl
self forget humans
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
self creative emotion
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. V. S. Pritchett
self people literature
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made. Val Kilmer
self understanding deception
As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self. Vaclav Havel
self needs
We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves... Usher
self ideas expectations
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul
self-confidence order ideas
The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women' Tucker Max
self people ignorant
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. Susie Bright
self denial way
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. Susie Orbach
self luxury clothes
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity. Susanna Kaysen
self liberty gone
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves
self voice white
No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. "I do," I say. "I need you. Suzanne Collins
self people catching-fire
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.
self musician sitting
For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded. Steven Price
selfish victory skins
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too. Steven Pressfield
self miracle revision
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
self giving preparation
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.
self definitions resistance
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
self mind needs
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.
self long-ago mastery
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
self validation needs
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station Steven Morrissey
self-esteem school kids
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned. Steven Pinker
self empathy violence
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.