Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leona Lewis

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Leland Ryken

Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

Leland Stanford

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

Lawrence Wright

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Knock your bad self out.

Kwame Nkrumah

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

John Keats

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

John Keats

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel

John Keats

How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

John Keats

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

Karen Horney

There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing

Karen Horney

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Karen Horney

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

Julio Cortazar

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Julie Garwood

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Joyce Brothers

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Joseph Priestley

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Joseph Pilates

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

Joseph Pilates

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

Jules Renard

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Jules Renard

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Joshua Leonard

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Joshua L. Liebman

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Josh Billings

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Josh Billings

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

Karl Jaspers

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

Karl Barth

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

K. Eric Drexler

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.