Quotes about self
selfish character thinking
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change. Richard G. Scott
self sometimes sane
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. Brandi Carlile
selfish love-is light
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. Bram Stoker
self doubt moments
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for self-doubt. It is a moment of hope. Boris Johnson
self cynical interest
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
self calm patient
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite. Booker T. Washington
self people this-life
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Bob Dylan
self battle trying
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. Billy Campbell
self people waiting
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.
self want principles
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Boris Pasternak
self people needs
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
self may
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. Brigitte Bardot
self-esteem self-confidence thinking
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
self coaching development
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. Brendon Burchard
self-esteem positive-thinking acceptance
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. Brennan Manning
selfish butterfly eagles
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
self choices important
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
self wonder intimacy
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
self-worth play embrace
How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
self who-we-are authentic-self
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
self goal perfection
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
selfish psychology police
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society. Barry Goldwater
self-confidence men track
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
self talent republican
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
self connected universe
The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. Arthur Young
self deceit deceiving
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. Arthur Schopenhauer
self firsts three
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
self world firsts
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
selfish men use
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
selfish-people psychology selfishness
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
self doubt trials
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial. Antonio Munoz Molina
selfish mean men
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed. Antonio Gramsci