Quotes about self
self giving my-best-friend
Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. Nicholas Sparks
self-esteem draws persons
If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him? Neal A. Maxwell
self-esteem heaven delight
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
selfish real struggle
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!
self empathy trying
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
self giving people
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
selfish taken resentment
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
selfishness ordinary sin
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
self-esteem goal generosity
I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.
self subtraction meekness
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
selfish way rooms
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
selfishness world way
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
selfishness heavy hardest
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
self firsts actresses
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success. Natasha Lyonne
self ego evolution
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. Muhammad Iqbal
self slumber might
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
self criticism intellect
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
self sea giving
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
self spirituality wealth
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. Muhammad Ali
self-esteem impossible said
I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.
self ruined poetry-is
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour Oscar Wilde
selfish men thinking
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
self giving feelings
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. Madonna Ciccone
self-esteem school awkward
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
self years judging
After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't.
self people empowering
To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
self-worth body individual
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. Ma Jian
selfish animal ambitious
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God. Lyman Abbott
self law joy
The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self. Lydia M. Child
selfish failure people
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
self psychology literature
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis. Luke Rhinehart
self body void
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around. Lucretius
self-esteem thinking narcissistic
I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. Lorraine Bracco