Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shermer

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Michael Scott

My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

Theodore Roosevelt

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Theodor Reik

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Theodor Reik

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodore Kaczynski

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Theodore L. Cuyler

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Theodor Adorno

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

Theodor Adorno

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Thandie Newton

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

Terry McMillan

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Margaret Mitchell

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Margaret Mitchell

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

Margaret Heffernan

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

Margaret Halsey

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Who you are depends on who you meet.

Margaret Fuller

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Marcus Brigstocke

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Marcus Garvey

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Marcus Garvey

Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not

Michael Fox

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Michael Faraday

As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

Melissa Sue Anderson

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Melinda Gates

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Michael McKean

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Michael Hutchence

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Michael Irvin

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.