Quotes about self
self-esteem concern esteem
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. Epictetus
self wealth self-sufficiency
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth . Epicurus
self blame ill
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete. Epictetus
self-improvement improvement
God has entrusted me with myself. Epictetus
self people feelings
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself. Emily Carr
self people touching
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. Emily Blunt
self promise pharisees
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. Emily Bronte
self house brain
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors — surpassing Material Place— Far safer, of a Midnight — meeting External Ghost— Than an Interior — Confronting— That cooler — Host. Far safer, through an Abbey — gallop— The Stones a'chase— Than Moonless — One's A'self encounter— In lonesome place— Ourself — behind ourself — Concealed— Should startle — most.... Emily Dickinson
self self-love world
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. Emanuel Swedenborg
self want obsessed
I just don't want to be self-obsessed. Ellen Pompeo
selfish giving drug
I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear. Ellen Page
self empowering example
I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound. Ella Henderson
self giving judging
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. Ella Maillart
self ego favors
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self. Edward de Bono
selfish selfless sometimes
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. Edward Albert
self doubt talent
Self-doubt kills talent. Edie McClurg
self who-i-am levels
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
self profound doubt
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. Jonathan Safran Foer
self-esteem editors advertisers
What editors are obliged to appear to say that Naomi Wolf
self-esteem stronger rising
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem men thinking
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? Naomi Wolf
self-esteem mean sick
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem eye reflection
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem equality behaviour
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem advancement used
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem air identity
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem eye men
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem body aging
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition Naomi Wolf
self-esteem names iron
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem age gold
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem perception discrimination
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem social-values workplace
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. Naomi Wolf
self-esteem sight faces
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. Naomi Wolf