Quotes about self
self actors stuff
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff. Matthew Lewis
selfish mind evolution
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. Matt Ridley
self feminist black-motivational
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. Maya Angelou
self-esteem self-confidence apollo
Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
self long trying
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true! Matthew Arnold
self political ordinary
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
selfish fighting people
I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment. Matt Diaz
self envy interesting
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting. Meg Wolitzer
self pieces mosaics
To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
self ideas personality
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well. Maxwell Maltz
self adequate realistic
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
self-esteem body spirit
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
self-esteem moving opportunity
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
self hands phrases
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
self keys discipline
Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.
self games names
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
self-esteem vices opinion
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
self-esteem important cybernetics
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
self-esteem behavior-change keys
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
self cybernetics determine
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
self-esteem emotional poison
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
self-esteem together cybernetics
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
self-esteem mean resilience
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.
selfish school merit
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish. Max Stirner
self each-day may
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.
self liberation i-can
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
self problem
One of my problems is to find the self. Max Beckmann
self understanding consciousness
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
self perspective world
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.
self-esteem opposites higher
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves. Marilyn vos Savant
self-esteem safe-environment nerves
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
self casting-off generosity
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. Marilynne Robinson
self essence independence
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Maria Montessori