Quotes about self
self gentleman return
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. William Hazlitt
self excellence mistress
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
self-esteem thinking people
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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.
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 order sweat
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")
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
selfish fool loose-women
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. W. Somerset Maugham
self epilepsy feet
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
selfish men suffering-of-others
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
self atheism democracy
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
selfish empathy survival
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel
self sloth three
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
self expression people
People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression. Wyclef Jean
self europe paris
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe. Wolfgang Schauble
self want natural
I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be. Willow Smith
self poor
I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider. Willie Stargell
self sin satisfied
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. William Osler
self mind emotion
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive. William P. Young
self judging west
We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
self lasts management
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last. William Penn
selfish selfishness next
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. William Makepeace Thackeray
self clothes making-love
Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace. Yayoi Kusama
self body technique
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance. Yehudi Menuhin