Quotes about self
self risk nerves
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. Buzz Aldrin
self-confidence opportunity giving
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum. Bunker Roy
self actors self-centered
Actors are inherently self-centered. Bryan Cranston
self want analyzing
I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. Bud Selig
self creative persons
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. James Dickey
selfish lying father
Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving. James E. Faust
selfish thinking years
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.
self light tree
The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.
self order wind
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".
self body cozy
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show. Jared Padalecki
self levels encounters
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. Jarvis Cocker
self people giving
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining. Jaron Lanier
self height oleanders
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump. Janet Fitch
self people safe
If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around. Jane Levy
self way might
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. Jane McGonigal
self illness accepted
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. Jane Roberts
self-esteem love-yourself believe
Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.
self perfection neurosis
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. Ethan Hawke
self people deception
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious. Errol Morris
self two rights
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. Ernestine Rose
self-esteem guy champion
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem. Ernest Cline
self rumor sincerity
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self. Erich von Stroheim
self forever identity
You cannot hide your true self forever. Cassandra Clare
self-esteem men ego
You know men. We have delicate egos.
self capable
We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves
self one-true-love remains
Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.
self faces said
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
self-esteem creative quirky
Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked. Carolyn Mackler
self-esteem underestimate never-underestimate
Never underestimate yourself
self solitude pace
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. Caroline Knapp
self order events
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
self-esteem risk needs
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
self cottages substance
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.