Quotes about self
self people rude
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. R. Buckminster Fuller
self-worth greedy poor
The poor lack much, the greedy everything. Publilius Syrus
self-esteem honor lost
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
self humanity horror
Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. Poppy Z. Brite
self-esteem use fad-diets
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. Portia de Rossi
self-esteem insecure avid
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.
self-worth important
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. Jean Rostand
self people needs
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love. Jean Vanier
self kind sophisticated
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind. Jil Sander
self answers loathing
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that. Jhonen Vasquez
selfish people trying
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship. Jhene Aiko
self love-to-read self-inflicted
I love to read. My education is self-inflicted Groucho Marx
selfish expression ends
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express. Graham Greene
selfish thinking people
People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know. Gisele Bundchen
self taught actors
I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived. Harpo Marx
self-esteem people feelings
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. Harriet Lerner
self self-respect liberty
Self respect is impossible without liberty.... Harriet Beecher Stowe
selfish church phases
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
self inquiry patient
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
selfish writing audience-of-one
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself. Harper Lee
self-esteem people needs
I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. Halle Berry
self-esteem looks persons
A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
self acting talent
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. Gregory Peck
self people identity
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out. Gregory Benford
self deception poetic
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. Gregory Maguire
self redemption dry
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption. Horace Bushnell
selfish team opportunity
I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that. Hope Solo
self execution precision
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky
self lasting-happiness firsts
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
self names attention
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation. Hugh Prather
self findings persist
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
self support
It's self-evident that we support the American bid,
selfish series
I'm not greedy, I'm not selfish I just wanted to get to a World Series one time, Craig Biggio