Quotes about self
selfish heart mind
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. Aaron Kampman
self shadow needs
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. Aaron Hill
self discipline simplicity
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated. Aaron Copland
selfish live-life imagination
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. Anne Sullivan
self tasks firsts
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit. Aimee McPherson
self time time-and-time-management
Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
self-esteem thinking comedy
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. Craig Ferguson
self say-anything needs
...slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?"
self wish levels
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality. Connie Willis
self-knowledge
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. Coco Chanel
self done lasts
The last three films I've done are about self-immolation. Claire Forlani
self justice tests
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. Clarence Day
self-esteem done self-determination
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me. Elizabeth Taylor
self people world
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't. Eli Pariser
self media two
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.
self democracy addresses
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
self want self-knowledge
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. Elias Canetti
self-worth ideas actors
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. Elia Kazan
self suffering doubt
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
self self-conscious conscious
I was always a self-conscious person.
selfish mistake home
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess? B. C. Forbes
self world firsts
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. Ashleigh Brilliant
self warning caution
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
self giving done
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. Arthur Hugh Clough
selfish love-is self-love
But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough. Aprilynne Pike
self-esteem self-worth building-up
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. Arabella Weir
self discipline worthwhile
If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile. Bear Bryant
self masculine-and-feminine two
nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community ... Barbara Deming
self names growing
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs. Barbara Ehrenreich
self-esteem integrity giving
I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [...] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator. Ashley Judd
self-esteem selfish care
Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.
self insanity way
The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.
selfish going-away three
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish. Ashley Greene