Quotes about self
self giving feelings
If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity. Charles Horton Cooley
self-confidence frustration practice
The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice
self-esteem love-yourself your-beautiful
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Bindi Irwin
self guy yankees-baseball
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. Bill Lee
self racism people
I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass. Bill Maher
self becoming hollywood
There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed. Beth Broderick
selfish knowing sovereign
God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more. Beth Moore
self pages stories
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime Bernard Malamud
selfish men greed
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives. Bernard of Clairvaux
selfish doings not-selfish
Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on. Bob Marley
selfishness never-forget forget
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Bill Walton
self-esteem expectations secret
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met? Bill Watterson
self cells people
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. Edna O'Brien
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. Edna Ferber
self race our-actions
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Edna St. Vincent Millay
self people
What is best for people is what they do for themselves. Benjamin Franklin
self enemy ifs
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
self independence mind
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.
self individuality disguise
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
self-love
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
self numbers church
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. Barbara Tuchman
self-esteem self given
I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem. Barbra Streisand
self world rupture
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. Ayad Akhtar
self going-for-it cost
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. Axl Rose
self enemy appease
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
self creative mystery
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Arthur Erickson
selfish wife association
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. Arthur Conan Doyle
self selfishness annihilation
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. Anton Chekhov
self-esteem heart self-love
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. bell hooks
self-esteem thinking people
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
self-esteem integrity people
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
self how-to-love environment
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
self-esteem reality healthy
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.