Quotes about self
selfish race purpose
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. Robert A. Heinlein
self years people
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
self safety democracy
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
selfish blessed giving
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed. Rick Allen
self trying irony
You should never try irony or self-effacing humour. Tim Robbins
self-esteem frustration men
Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys. Tim Allen
self want tongue
Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults. Thomas Szasz
self discipline drug
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.
self gains succeed
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
selfish easier duty
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
self-esteem oxygen self-respect
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
self groups helping
How can there be self-help groups? Steven Wright
self boss gas-stations
I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.
self lists motivated
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. Steven Spielberg
self play able
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery. Tom Hollander
self-esteem esteem best-things
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. Toni Morrison
self hands naked
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.
self tests strange
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
self personal-transformation transition
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new. Tom O'Connor
self age examination
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing? Tom Chatfield
self rocks people
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? Tina Fey
self ruts persons
There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought. Tim LaHaye
self house trying
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. Tim Ferriss
self creating discipline
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
self-esteem self-confidence insecure
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
self-esteem self-confidence insecure
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
self attention gains
I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.
self decision examination
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
self desire important
Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away. Tibor Fischer
self deception strange
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. Sam Harris
selfish writing selfishness
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. Tanith Lee
self people giving
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff. Tana French
self-confidence self fragile
Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. Sylvia Kristel