Quotes about self
self-worth self lasts
And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. Amy Winehouse
self-esteem helping esteem
The gods help them who help themselves. Aesop
self hands class
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer. Alexander MacLaren
self appreciate doe
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry. Alexander McCall Smith
self giving advice
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. Alexander Pope
self order judging
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
self heaven silence
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
self years hours
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
self heaven stealing
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
self self-love social
True self-love and social are the same.
self easy manners
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
self social god-and-nature
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
self-esteem past thinking
I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day. Alexa Chung
self way missions
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. Alex Gibney
self needs imperfect
The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self. Debbie Ford
self-confidence building-up voice
Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.
self possession atrophy
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. E. Stanley Jones
self waiting miracle
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
self class identity
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. E. O. Wilson
selfish winning groups
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
self years use
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. E. M. Forster
self smell people
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
self-confidence office history
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.
self-esteem mirrors looks
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. Drew Barrymore
self-confidence years numbers
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Douglas MacArthur
selfish men giving
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare. Dorothy Thompson
self soul born
For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with. Donna Karan
self holy-grail cost
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs. Donald Berwick
selfish winning years
In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together. Donald Driver
self world mouths
Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full. Donald Barthelme
self criticism session
Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.
self want failing
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. Don DeLillo
self interest loses
I'd like to lose interest in myself ...