Quotes about self
self simplicity consciousness
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. George Eliot
self objectivity vision
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
self years two
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream. Gary Shteyngart
self-esteem men feelings
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
self-esteem recovery pride
It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing. Gary Oldman
self-confidence thinking source
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me. Gabourey Sidibe
self talking weight
Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke. Gabriel Iglesias
self skins safe
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
selfish long enjoy
You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something. Frank Iero
self color doubt
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Chris Hedges
self next pity
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. Chris Hardwick
self names fire
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. Christopher Alexander
self-esteem love-yourself desire
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable Christine Feehan
self giving doubt
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves. Christian Wiman
self-confidence self young
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young. Christie Hefner
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
self names ego
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
self morbid cures
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
self years realised
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere. Chris Pine
self actors littles
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious. Chris Lilley
self stuff sound
Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising. Chris Isaak
self hands brave
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine. F. Scott Fitzgerald
self government ends
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. George W. Bush
self competition important
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition. George Stigler
selfish stupid intelligent
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? George Stephanopoulos
self years six
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland. George Steiner
self investing principles
Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail. George Soros
selfish lying writing
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. George Orwell
self enchantment found
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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.