Quotes about self
self impossible difficult
Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. Bhumibol Adulyadej
self people work-ethic
There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self. Big Sean
selfish people feelings
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. C. S. Lewis
self surrender easy
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
self use littles
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
selfish thinking evil
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
self feckless vices
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.
self want natural
The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.
self giving creation
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
selfish party men
Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with. Cecelia Ahern
self-worth quality gauges
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other. Carrie Preston
self rooms demon
There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. Carrie Fisher
self feminist perception
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated Carl Rogers
self individuality architect
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
self-esteem people majority
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
self numbers depth
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. Carl Sagan
self-questioning errors criticism
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
self-esteem past challenges
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
self two perfect
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.
self people would-be
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. Bill Bryson
self vision
His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient,
self-esteem fall taken
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself. Brian Andreas
self-esteem self trying
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self. Brenda Ueland
self feelings secret
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.
self improvement fight-club-book
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction... Brad Pitt
selfish thinking what-if
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.
self world growing
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence. Jane Hirshfield
selfish thesis
Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything. Jane Goodall
self-esteem loss fighting
When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well. Jane Fonda
self citizens deodorant
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. Jan Morris
selfish character mean
As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line. Jamie Campbell Bower
selfishness luxurious
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] Juvenal
self shoes understanding
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. Chinua Achebe