Quotes about self
self race speech
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language. George Edward Woodberry
self religion knows
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. George Eliot
self-confidence people addresses
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
self vision height
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
self achievement looks
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
self stupidity world
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
selfish sacrifice judgment
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
self-esteem self-worth hiking
I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem. Fergie
self-esteem self high-self-esteem
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
self-esteem self-worth work-out
Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.
self mathematics evident
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things. Felix Klein
self america challenges
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. Ferdinand Marcos
selfish men collaboration
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims. Felix Frankfurter
self expression greed
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
self evil-within shining
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves. Feisal Abdul Rauf
self doubt source
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. Federico Fellini
self would-be virtue
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. F. H. Bradley
self people sometimes
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them. Ezra Miller
self littles circumstances
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances. Ezra Taft Benson
self-esteem men god-love
If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
selfish thinking joy
The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
self forever experience
None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever. Eugene O'Neill
self giving catholic
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi
self important fundamentals
Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time. Francis Fukuyama
self desire identity
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
self forgotten god-love
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is. Francis Chan
selfish land light
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
self-esteem feet feelings
Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel. Francine Pascal
self class important
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. Francine Prose
self portraiture done
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. Francis Bacon
selfish believe resilience
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity. Jennifer Egan
self brain desire
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. Jeff Vandermeer
self-worth important
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. Jean Rostand