Quotes about self
self-confidence player thinking
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. John McEnroe
self environmental serious
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. John McCain
self doubt assets
We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.
self use doe
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. John Irving
self nurse abortion
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
selfish views ideas
From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that. John Hodgman
self facts
The fact is I'm very self-similar.
self students form
Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance John Henrik Clarke
self-esteem giving needs
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. John Henry Newman
self-esteem thinking reliance
Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think. Ayn Rand
self-esteem independent men
A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.
self practice atheism
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
selfish
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
self-esteem greatness men
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
self-esteem men selfishness
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
self-esteem self-confidence reason
There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
self-esteem self-confidence reality
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.
self-esteem fighting soul
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.
self-esteem fighting issues
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.
selfish struggle greed
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".
selfish giving desire
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?
self self-respect quests
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
self-esteem reality men
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.
selfish names history
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
selfish self-esteem love-you
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love....
self moments fountainhead
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".
self-esteem self-confidence reality
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.
self-esteem men giving
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.
self-esteem greatness purpose
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
self-esteem selfish love-is
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone
self-esteem honor action
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
self-esteem men self-worth
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
self discipline training
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do. Audie Murphy