Quotes about self
selfish
They are not selfish in the least bit; they're just very team-oriented.
self
It's a very self-empowering fuel. You can make it yourself.
self europe trying
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.
self law two
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction. Ravi Zacharias
selfish night waiting
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your mind here and my mind here, and the afternoons have been like none I can remember. Ray Bradbury
self giving educator
The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. Randy Pausch
self students helping
Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.
selfish common common-good
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
self years giving
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes. Randa Abdel-Fattah
self russia peaceful
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone. Rand Paul
self community consciousness
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community. Ralph Nader
selfish years supportive
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other. Rajon Rondo
self worthy happenings
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love. Rainer Maria Rilke
self want
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...
selfish helping-others artist
I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do. Raekwon
self blood soldier
Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution. Shashi Tharoor
self how-to-love neighbor
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. Shane Claiborne
self intimate crisis
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Seamus Heaney
self joy world
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
self location ifs
If self is a location, so is love.
self want
I don't want to be my extravert self all the time. Mick Jagger
selfish people want
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
self needs sometimes
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. Michael Patrick King
self shapes size
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Michael Pollan
self understanding taught
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.
selfish practice people
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
selfish insecure way
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. Sidney Poitier
self flames trying
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
self two people
If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle. Sholom Aleichem
selfish writing thinking
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating. Sherman Alexie
selfish native-american needs
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
self letters scripture
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. Sebastian Franck
self car looks
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. Sebastian Thrun