Quotes about self
self-improvement progress trouble
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. Berthold Auerbach
self time time-and-time-management
Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
self humanity doe
But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on? Brit Marling
self-esteem issues people
So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants... all I have to say is that self-esteem is how you look at yourself and I feel good enough about myself so wear that kind of clothing... the breast implant issue has nothing to do with that... Britney Spears
self kind delusion
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. Brandon Sanderson
self logic made
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
self-confidence self
I had a lot of self-confidence. Bowie Kuhn
self departure modesty
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
self race people
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. Archibald MacLeish
self advertising
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
self-esteem broken trying
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken... Ben Moody
self body sometimes
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. Ben Marcus
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
self rejection records
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. Ashwin Sanghi
self people democracy
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. Bashar al-Assad
self foundation virtue
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. Baruch Spinoza
self-esteem resentment weak
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Barbara Sher
self-esteem good-luck thinking
Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
self retrospect easy
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
selfish sacrifice leader
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction. Arthur Koestler
self evil groups
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
self views emergencies
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.
self-confidence expression people
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
selfish party men
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.
self individual tendencies
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
self society tests
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
self realization existence
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. Arthur Miller
self humans human-beings
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
selfish accomplishment tennis
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me. Arthur Ashe
self machines schwarzenegger
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. Arnold Schwarzenegger
self-confidence self people
Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you. Azim Premji
self-esteem lying matter
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. Azar Nafisi
self issues evil
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.