Quotes about self
self heartfelt wish
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. George Saunders
selfish believe heart
Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.
self games common
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule. Jean Piaget
self world contact
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
self law causes
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
self virtue stills
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. Jean Paul
self people greek
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good. Jim Hightower
self understanding losing
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. Jim Harrison
selfish race careers
When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude. Jenson Button
self focus doubt
I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus. Jenny Slate
self care doe
A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.
self trying quality
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. Jeffrey Gitomer
self mind looks
The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison. Jeffrey Eugenides
self defense littles
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
self want riot
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. Jesse Jackson
self doubt criticism
When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen. Jennifer Lee
self-esteem lows self
I had low self-esteem. Jennifer O'Neill
self people different
It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how. Jennifer Lopez
self-worth empowering feelings
I know it's hard for women to tap into that feeling of self-worth. We need to get the message out that you are valued, you are a goddess and don't forget that.
self class people
The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before. Jeffrey Pfeffer
self arrogant world
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more. Jean Chretien
self self-control world
You need self-control in an out-of-control world. James C. Collins
self-esteem men discovery
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. James A. Michener
self-improvement faces
You cannot fix what you will not face. James A. Baldwin
self doubt growing
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Jacqueline McKenzie
self choices denial
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. Jacqueline Novogratz
self-esteem care praise
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. Jack Vance
selfish compassion arrogant
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Christopher Hitchens
self-esteem issues lucky
I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
self korea abjection
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
self east void
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. Gary Snyder
self doe poet
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
self civilization growth
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.