Quotes about self
self resignation unfortunate
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. Honore de Balzac
self self-love turns
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
self genius intention
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
self appreciate life-is
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence Isaac Asimov
selfishness would-be rewards
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness. Immanuel Kant
self-improvement improvement duty
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
self way hell
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
selfish years drug
I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. Elton John
self drug sides
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.
self years generosity
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
self people blind
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
self secret half
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
self feel-good proportion
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
self enemy deception
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
self disposition interest
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
self advice profit
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
self doe born
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
self vanity affliction
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
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
self kansas america
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. Howell Raines
self speaks-out catalyst-for-change
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. Howard Zinn