Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mencius

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Melody Beattie

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

Melody Beattie

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Michelle Williams

I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

Michio Kaku

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

Michel Houellebecq

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Michael J. Fox

Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, 'what are you smiling about?' But I already know the answer: 'It just gets better from here.'

Martha Washington

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Martha Stewart

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

Mark Rothko

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

Marie Osmond

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Ovid

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Paul Eenhoorn

I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.

Paul Bettany

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

Marya Mannes

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

Marya Hornbacher

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Martha Gellhorn

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Martha Beck

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Martha Beck

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

Martha Beck

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Martha Beck

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Martha Beck

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self

Martha Beck

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Marshall McLuhan

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

Mark Goulston

The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Mark Gatiss

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Oswald Chambers

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Oswald Chambers

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.