Quotes about self
self lasting-happiness firsts
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
self names attention
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation. Hugh Prather
self findings persist
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
self kansas america
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. Howell Raines
self
It's a very self-empowering fuel. You can make it yourself.
self arrogant world
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more. Jean Chretien
self self-control world
You need self-control in an out-of-control world. James C. Collins
self-esteem men discovery
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. James A. Michener
self-improvement faces
You cannot fix what you will not face. James A. Baldwin
self-esteem skins
You've got to be happy in your own skin. Jada Pinkett Smith
self doubt growing
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Jacqueline McKenzie
self choices denial
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. Jacqueline Novogratz
self-esteem care praise
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. Jack Vance
selfish compassion arrogant
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Christopher Hitchens
self-esteem issues lucky
I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
self korea abjection
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
selfish series
I'm not greedy, I'm not selfish I just wanted to get to a World Series one time, Craig Biggio
selfish
They are not selfish in the least bit; they're just very team-oriented.
self-esteem
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no. Jane Haddam
selfish believe thinking
I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. Harry Belafonte
self political use
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. Harrison Ford
self personality core
The core of my personality consists of many selves. Hans Bender
self people doubt
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. Hannah Kent
self deception self-deception
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. Hannah More
self patient foolish
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. Guy Kawasaki
self definitions fields
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
self islands inventory
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
selfish character emotional
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own. Graeme Simsion
self closing expertise
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. Glenn Greenwald
self special groups
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. Ginny Brown-Waite
self-control conformity no-hope
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller
self ego done
To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.
self concerts form
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.