Quotes about self
self survival enemy
Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self. Dalai Lama
self-confidence concern-for-others giving
Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction.
self-esteem ocean quality
Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.
selfishness today serious
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
self ignorant scoundrels
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me. Doc Holliday
self america improvement
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced. Dinesh D'Souza
selfish human-nature critics
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
self should criticize
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others. Diogenes
self next ruins
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. Dick Francis
self states enjoy
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever. Desmond Tutu
self-esteem special god-image
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
self generosity way
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.
self law people
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, enough is enough? God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence and we break the law of our being at our peril.
self knowing ubuntu
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
self way moral
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
self people bless
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people. David A. Bednar
self world shapes
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again David Whyte
self joy doorways
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation...
selfishness sin bases
The basis of all sin is selfishness. David O. McKay
selfish advertising interest
Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. David Ogilvy
self-confidence years skills
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession. David Mamet
self-esteem silly math
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible. Danica McKellar
selfish sacrifice love-is
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love. Dada Vaswani
self anchors greed
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*. Dag Hammarskjold
self poison defense
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
self perfection unselfishness
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
self roles use
The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life. Daisaku Ikeda
self-esteem people life-is
You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are. Condoleezza Rice
self-esteem achievement black
Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
self track add
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control... Cole Porter
self wish youth
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. Claude M. Bristol
self saying-no care
Saying no can be the ultimate self-care. Claudia Black
self clothes publicity
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. Cleo Moore