Quotes about self
self dancing people
Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor. Dirk Benedict
self-esteem writing twenties
I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly. David Bowie
self-worth accepted process
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. Dave Pelzer
self long one-day
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. David Nicholls
self lazy important
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.
self one-day pleasure
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
self-confidence giving scented-candles
You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
self self-respect students
Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background, Ahmad Jamal
self-esteem self-respect self-reliance
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? Abdul Kalam
selfish heart mind
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. Aaron Kampman
self shadow needs
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. Aaron Hill
self discipline simplicity
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated. Aaron Copland
self time time-and-time-management
Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
self humanity doe
But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on? Brit Marling
self-esteem issues people
So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants... all I have to say is that self-esteem is how you look at yourself and I feel good enough about myself so wear that kind of clothing... the breast implant issue has nothing to do with that... Britney Spears
self kind delusion
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. Brandon Sanderson
self logic made
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
self-confidence self
I had a lot of self-confidence. Bowie Kuhn
self departure modesty
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
self race people
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. Archibald MacLeish
self advertising
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
self-esteem broken trying
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken... Ben Moody
self body sometimes
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. Ben Marcus
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
self rejection records
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. Ashwin Sanghi
self people democracy
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. Bashar al-Assad
self foundation virtue
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. Baruch Spinoza
self-esteem resentment weak
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Barbara Sher
self-esteem good-luck thinking
Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
self retrospect easy
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
selfish sacrifice leader
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction. Arthur Koestler
self evil groups
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
self views emergencies
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.