Quotes about self
self europe culture
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness. Mark Steyn
self government needs
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.
self elephants doubt
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. Mariella Frostrup
self brain needs
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. Nick Bostrom
self instagram goes-on
We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Nancy Jo Sales
self different exile
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. Nancy Horan
self-love wish immortality
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler
selfish concerned
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
self lust sensual
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
selfless unselfish-love benevolent
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
selfish giving lust
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
self-love understanding would-be
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. Ovid
self opinionated sense-of-self
I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self. Paul Eenhoorn
self bully stories
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story. Paul Bettany
self humanity may
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. Marya Mannes
selfish thinking imagination
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption. Mary Wollstonecraft
self perfectionist driven
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical. Marya Hornbacher
self-esteem self survival
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. Martha Gellhorn
self-esteem loss arrows
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. Martha Beck
self-esteem stress suffering
Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
self-esteem giving today
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
self pressure social
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
self essentials whatever-it-takes
Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self
selfish thinking today
Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.
self media transformation
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves. Marshall McLuhan
self insecurity trying
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you. Mark Goulston
self-esteem thinking glasses
I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod. Mark Gatiss
selfish men rights
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
self devil purpose
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world. Oswald Chambers
self perspective devil
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.
self self-centered
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
self elements power-of-god
Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
self hands obedience
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.