Quotes about self
self belief massive
I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up. Johnny Vegas
self order years
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. Lynn Margulis
self-confidence firsts first-time
I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence. Lynn Johnston
self bass arguing
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. Ludwig van Beethoven
self improvement creation
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
self feelings brain
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead. Ludwig Wittgenstein
self-esteem belief mistrust
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
self world limits
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
self justice vices
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? Luc de Clapiers
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron
self envy doubt
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
self likes vote
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance. Lord Acton
self political denial
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
self woe consumers
I am the self-consumer of my woes, John Clare
self ego inappropriate
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny. John Cleese
self-esteem years three
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring. John Bradshaw
self ego spotlight
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
self knowing-who-you-are opinion
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
self priorities want
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. M. Russell Ballard
self discipline feelings
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. M. Scott Peck
self hands and-love
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
self growth purpose
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
self impossible good-enough
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible. Lupita Nyong'o
selfish expectations sake
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews. Lupe Fiasco
self laughing comedian
You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed. John Cena
self kansas heaven
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick. Max Lucado
self-confidence age weakness
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. May Sarton
self innocence pure
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
self class two
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
self people solitude
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
self long machines
For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...
self pleasure conscious
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. Max Eastman
selfish rap mean
I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you. Matthew McConaughey