Quotes about self
self years realised
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere. Chris Pine
self definitions different
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. Hillary Clinton
self work-relationships our-world
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
self years growth
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. Herbert Croly
selfish intelligent individual
The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals. Herbert Simon
self definitions information
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations. Herbert Marcuse
self government succeed
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. Herbert Hoover
self toil limitless
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more. F. Scott Fitzgerald
selfish great-love people
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
self brave illusion
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
self-confidence giving important
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage. Evelyn Lauder
selfish simple people
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. Evgeny Morozov
self denial hardship
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited. Evelyn Waugh
self expression law
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. Evan Davis
self parent achievement
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction. Estelle Ramey
selfish feel-good self-love
If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good. Esther Hicks
self-love be-good dominant
It is my dominant intent to be good to me.
self-esteem order vibrations
When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.
self-esteem creating creation
You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.
self-esteem feels responding
The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.
self-esteem self-confidence matter
Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.
self-esteem voice listening
If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'
self-esteem self-confidence feel-good
I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.
self inspire speech
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves. Ezra Klein
self growth aging
Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind. Ethel Percy Andrus
self perfection trying
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. Eugen Herrigel
self grace defense
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace. Erwin W. Lutzer
self mind world
The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it... Erwin Schrodinger
self world found
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
self fifty ancestor
The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
self-esteem humility awareness
Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness. Erwin McManus
self community healthy
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.
self creating decision
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating. Erykah Badu