Quotes about self
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 kansas america
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. Howell Raines
self speaks-out catalyst-for-change
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. Howard Zinn
self culture virtue
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? Horace
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
self impact needs
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something. Guy Gavriel Kay
self-esteem long feelings
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it? Guy Finley
self giving victory
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
self mind defeat
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
self
He's very much independent and on his own and self-confident.