Quotes about self
self-esteem
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. Amity Gaige
selfish agency people
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Billy Graham
self four christ
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.
self-esteem trust
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
self would-be virtue
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. F. H. Bradley
self people sometimes
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them. Ezra Miller
self-esteem numbers achievement
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Ezra Taft Benson
self littles circumstances
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
self-esteem men god-love
If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
selfish thinking joy
The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
self forever experience
None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever. Eugene O'Neill
self giving catholic
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi
self important fundamentals
Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time. Francis Fukuyama
self desire identity
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
self forgotten god-love
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is. Francis Chan
selfish land light
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
self-esteem feet feelings
Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel. Francine Pascal
self class important
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. Francine Prose
self portraiture done
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. Francis Bacon
self taught actors
I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived. Harpo Marx
self-esteem people feelings
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. Harriet Lerner
self self-respect liberty
Self respect is impossible without liberty.... Harriet Beecher Stowe
selfish church phases
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
self inquiry patient
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
selfish writing audience-of-one
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself. Harper Lee
self-esteem people needs
I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. Halle Berry
self-esteem looks persons
A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
self acting talent
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. Gregory Peck
self people identity
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out. Gregory Benford
self deception poetic
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. Gregory Maguire
self redemption dry
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption. Horace Bushnell
selfish team opportunity
I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that. Hope Solo
self execution precision
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky