Quotes about self
self peaceful keep-smiling
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. Bryant H. McGill
self wages working-conditions
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity. Cesar Chavez
self justice optimism
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.
self-esteem quality watches
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond. Catherine Ponder
selfish rain ocean
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain? Alan Lightman
self rights government
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. Alan Dershowitz
self important done
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit. Al Yankovic
self-esteem team hockey
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
self use pumps
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
self ideas risk
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. Alain de Botton
self imagination identity
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
self years careers
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
self giving fame
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. Al Goldstein
self people doubt
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.' Al Franken
self truly
One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.
selfish halfway-there likes
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. Eddie Van Halen
self-esteem profound world
The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you. Earl Nightingale
self soul elements
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. Elizabeth Bishop
self stimulus chosen
The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. Elizabeth Bowen
self giving soul
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
self law punishment
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
self littles doe
To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
self class support
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
self punishment intellectual
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
self-esteem school narrators
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. Elinor Lipman
self law done
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. Elena Kagan
self world stale
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you. Deepak Chopra
self-love happiness-and-love
To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.
self way
Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.
self
Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.
self waiting world
The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.
self enemy shadow
The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.
self people wish
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. Dirk Benedict