Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Bello

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Mark Victor Hansen

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Mark Victor Hansen

Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.

Mark Victor Hansen

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Mark Victor Hansen

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Mark Hopkins

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Mark Barrowcliffe

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

Mark Bittman

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

Mikhail Bakunin

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Mikhail Bakunin

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

Mike Cahill

We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?

Nicholas Brendon

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Naomi Campbell

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Miyamoto Musashi

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Mitt Romney

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

R. D. Laing

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

Publilius Syrus

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Poppy Z. Brite

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Portia de Rossi

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

Portia de Rossi

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

Kristen Stewart

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.