Quotes about self
self church morality
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient Michael Horton
self causes levels
I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence. Michael Ian Black
self europe trying
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.
self law two
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction. Ravi Zacharias
selfish night waiting
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your mind here and my mind here, and the afternoons have been like none I can remember. Ray Bradbury
self giving educator
The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. Randy Pausch
self students helping
Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.
selfish common common-good
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
self years giving
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes. Randa Abdel-Fattah
self russia peaceful
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone. Rand Paul
self-esteem humility vanity
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. Eric Hoffer
self righteousness manifestation
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
self-confidence hands ability
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.
self doubt poison
It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
self denial harsh
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
self people silence
Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
selfish needs self-righteous
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
self-esteem literature odor
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
self miracle corny
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
self creative flow
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
self vanity support
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
self-esteem humility vanity
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
self trying ethics
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
self burning way
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
self giving effort
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts. James Cash Penney
self advice interest
Advice from others is always filtered through self interest. James Cook
self class goal
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
self-esteem spring a-man-thinketh
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. James Allen
self mastery a-man-thinketh
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
self soul immortality
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. James Anthony Froude
selfish sage fool
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
self-confidence doe telling-the-truth
The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware. Jacques Ellul
self-confidence talking agriculture
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem. Jacque Fresco