Quotes about self
self-esteem believe reflection
Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. Iyanla Vanzant
selfish mean responsibility
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
self violence compare
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.
self expression stills
Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused. Isaac Hayes
self stubborn educated
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Isaac Disraeli
self genius intention
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
self appreciate life-is
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence Isaac Asimov
selfishness would-be rewards
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness. Immanuel Kant
self-improvement improvement duty
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
self way hell
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
selfish years drug
I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. Elton John
self drug sides
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.
self years generosity
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
self people blind
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
self secret half
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
self feel-good proportion
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
self enemy deception
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
self disposition interest
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
self advice profit
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
self doe born
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
self tonight bishops
Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight! Jeaniene Frost
self sides grudge
Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.
selfish health goal
Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure. Jennifer Hudson
self long doe
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing. Jeff Cooper
self-defense precision ifs
Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.
self facts amazon
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing. Jeff Bezos
selfish men unjust
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Jean-Paul Sartre
self perfect harmony
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation. Georges Braque
self names america
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization. George Will
self-esteem biology planets
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
self intellectual able
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. George Sand
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
self-confidence self soldier
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence. George S. Patton