Quotes about self
self-respect coins
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
selfish men being-selfish
Men tend to be selfish. Caprice Bourret
self good-enough made
Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough. Cameron Diaz
self assault brutal
Comparison is a brutal assault upon one’s self.
self proud danger
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. C. S. Lewis
self choices hell
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
selfishness
Selfishness has never been admired.
selfish humble conceited
"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
self two people
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.
self sake ifs
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
self church may
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
self years would-be
My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!' Miley Cyrus
selfish taken government
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. Calvin Coolidge
self crafts firsts
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. Bryant H. McGill
self defining assertive
Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.
self abuse care
Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
self-esteem identity criticism
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
self wings promise
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
self plot purpose
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
self peaceful keep-smiling
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
self wages working-conditions
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity. Cesar Chavez
self justice optimism
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.
self-esteem quality watches
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond. Catherine Ponder
selfish rain ocean
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain? Alan Lightman
self rights government
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. Alan Dershowitz
self important done
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit. Al Yankovic
self-esteem team hockey
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
self use pumps
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
self ideas risk
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. Alain de Botton
self imagination identity
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
self years careers
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
self giving fame
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. Al Goldstein
self people doubt
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.' Al Franken