Quotes about self
self historical-knowledge achievement
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. Hu Shih
self people blame
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.' Howard Schultz
selfishness courtesy veneer
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honore de Balzac
self feelings hierarchy
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
self resignation unfortunate
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
self self-love turns
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
self vanity affliction
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
self praise interest
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.
self taste bears
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
self vices virtue
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
self observation one-time
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
self-harm moderation temperance
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
self joy erotic
Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Ian Mcewan
self stories impatience
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
self guilt details
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
self expression giving
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.
selfish people self-centered
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Hugh Hefner
self
There can be no place for self entirely Horatio Nelson
self errors rejoice
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. Horace Mann
self
I don't think there's any question, ... that we need Jermaine to be his old self. Billy Beane
selfish love-you greed
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm
self-esteem criminal-mind ifs
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
self doubters moments
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. Erica Jong
self sin nonsense
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
self people answers
Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process. Eric Cantona
self age bunk
Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt. Eminem
self car safety
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. Elon Musk
self-esteem self description
To me, self-description is a calamity. Jasper Johns
selfish technology thinking
I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. Javier Bardem
self-esteem teaching views
God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do. Jay Adams
self definitions different
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. Hillary Clinton
self work-relationships our-world
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
self years growth
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. Herbert Croly