Quotes about self
selfish moving forward-in-life
Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life. Kristen Stewart
self criticism employment
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. Kingsley Amis
self self-pity pity
Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts. Oscar Levant
selfish reading book
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. Oscar Levant
self-esteem mean color
True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter. Oprah Winfrey
self helping evolve
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings. Oprah Winfrey
self skills intuition
My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition. Oprah Winfrey
self-esteem believe asking
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright. Oprah Winfrey
self age saving
Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for? Oprah Winfrey
self-esteem years feelings
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. Oprah Winfrey
self-esteem essence play
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. Oprah Winfrey
self-esteem who-i-am esteem
It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do. Oprah Winfrey
self-esteem connections spirit
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection. Oprah Winfrey
self essence may
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. Oliver Goldsmith
self mirrors prison
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. Margaret Atwood
selfish princess want
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. Margaret Atwood
self dwelling different
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. Margaret Atwood
self waiting speech
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born. Margaret Atwood
self broken needs
You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These are just thoughts. These are just beliefs. Accept your self, where you are in this moment. Accept your wholeness. That is freedom. Marcus Thomas
self spirituality fingers
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. Marcus Tullius Cicero
self requirements self-reliant
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone. Marcus Tullius Cicero
selfishness virtue difficult
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Marcus Tullius Cicero
self-esteem men secret
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself. Marcel Pagnol
self decision intuition
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. Marcel Duchamp
self doubt self-doubt
I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do. Marc Almond
self risk degrees
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. Kevin Mitnick
self soul trying
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. Kenny Smith
self would-be rebel
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists. Kenny Smith
self words-of-wisdom trying
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value. Kenny Smith
self house experts
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts"). Kenny Smith
self parent perception
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime. Kelly Corrigan
self-esteem advice trade
Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with. Kelly Clarkson
self-esteem guarantees-that business-success
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. Kathy Ireland