Quotes about self
self grace rich
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ... Freya Stark
self hands shooting
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
self long hatred
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. Frank Langella
self motorcycle stilettos
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt. Maggie Grace
self-improvement use treasure
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. Napoleon Bonaparte
self-improvement disease complaining
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Og Mandino
self becoming humans
I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.
self-esteem procrastination action
Action will destroy your procrastination.
self-esteem believe miracle
We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.
selfish thinking games
I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways. Norman Mailer
self people may
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. Norman Lear
self inspire trying
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made. Orison Swett Marden
self-esteem vision higher
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
selfish humility eye
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
self effort behaviour
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed Oliver E. Williamson
self discovery realization
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone. Octavio Paz
self humans human-beings
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
selfishness ruined
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life Novala Takemoto
self unions sake
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete. Novalis
self world unions
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
self-esteem opportunity individual
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities Norman Vincent Peale
self growth bigger
Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
self plus latent
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
self-esteem thinking made
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
self-esteem thinking forget
Forget yourself! Think courage.
self imagination acting
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. Emile Hirsch
self would-be scrutiny
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. Emile M. Cioran
self rejection substance
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
self sensations
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
self flaws easy
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
self-esteem father rejection
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' Ellen Muth
self movement affirmation
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. Ellen Key
self teach
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. Ellen Glasgow