Quotes about self
selfish sacrifice people
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people. Karl Marx
self people matter
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
selfish book reading
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy. Kajol
self self-respect connections
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. Julia Cameron
self littles frightening
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
self-respect firsts ears
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. Joseph Joubert
self-esteem men long
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
self life-is my-friends
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself. Joseph Smith, Jr.
self-improvement your-future within-you
Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you Myles Munroe
self mortals
We are all mortals, and each is for himself. Moliere
self humanity brain
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. Mohsin Hamid
self imagine easy
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
self helping sufi
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
self political economic
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? Milton Friedman
self evil people
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.
self goal limits
Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. Mike Shanahan
self knowing discipline
People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.
self-esteem thinking worthy
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize. Mike Dooley
selfish people speak
I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself. Mike Birbiglia
self goal firsts
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement. J. K. Rowling
self essence culture
The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. H. L. Mencken
self worry labels
Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
self-worth shields slave
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
selfish years wife
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. Greg LeMond
self voice echoes
I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born. Jack London
self curiosity atheism
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. J. William Fulbright
selfish judging quality
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. H. P. Lovecraft
self punishment defense
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. Georg Buchner
self defense murder
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
self-improvement improvement blunt
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. Georg C. Lichtenberg
self challenges company
Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company. Gary Hamel
self hypocrisy deception
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. Friedrich Nietzsche
self-esteem thinking esteem
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking