Quotes about self
self trying may
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take. Gilbert Ryle
self hunters hunted
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
self-esteem should-have people
Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself. Gillian Anderson
self destruction default
My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.
self criticism excess
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
selfish habit unselfish
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
self-esteem unfortunate standing
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. Harry Stack Sullivan
self-esteem self-confidence self-love
There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Fred Rogers
selfish ambition men
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. Martin Luther King, Jr.
self
The self cannot be self without other selves.
self-esteem artist streets
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
self purpose unwavering-faith
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.
self direct-action campaigns
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
self jail world
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
self-esteem personality schizophrenic
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
self-improvement world finance
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves. Mark Victor Hansen
self-esteem winning giving
Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.
self matter action
Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.
self
No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.
self principles denial
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome. Mark Hopkins
self age reason
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes. Mark Barrowcliffe
self cooking defense
I got into cooking out of self-defense. Mark Bittman
self doe profit
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. Marguerite Yourcenar
self looks denial
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. Mikhail Bakunin
self organization people
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.
self soul energy
We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing? Mike Cahill
self people feelings
I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me. Nicholas Brendon
self-esteem loneliness issues
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. Naomi Campbell
self-understanding self understanding
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding. Miyamoto Musashi
self-esteem party long
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. Mitt Romney
self way behavior
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves. R. D. Laing
self humanity world
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. R. Buckminster Fuller
selfish moving class
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.