Quotes about self
self-esteem self-worth desire
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. Jean de la Bruyere
self names employment
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
self people amiable
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
self-love selfishness wish
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
self racism persons
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. Jayson Blair
self style like-you
Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self. Jay-Z
self the-end-of-the-day world
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
self world examination
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. Jay McInerney
self soul care
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.
self practice devil
I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one Jay Electronica
self two feet
From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet. Jay Kay
self-worth hands giving
When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth. Jay Leno
self-esteem thinking littles
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
self play long
One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?
self class roots
In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior. Evo Morales
self special important
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. Mo Rocca
self risk world
If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction. Mohamed ElBaradei
selfish stuff kind
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. Moby
self years drunk
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.
self people body
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
self practice meditation
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.
self-esteem lows self
Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.
self want skinny
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. Mindy Kaling
self always-trying needs
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.
self twenties destructive
I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. Kirk Hammett
self effort mind
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him. Kenneth Roberts
self lasts wagons
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon. Kenneth Williams
self feelings emotion
There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project. Kenny Chesney
self-esteem lows self
I've suffered from low self-esteem. Ken Kercheval
self differences people
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything. Karl Marx
selfish men trying
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.
self fundamentals accumulation
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.
self return moments
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.