Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

Philip Sidney

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Philip Roth

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Peter Dunne

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

Peter De Vries

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Penelope Mitchell

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

Pepper Schwartz

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

Paulo Coelho

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Marisha Pessl

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Marissa Mayer

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

Marianne Moore

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Meghan O'Rourke

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Megan McCafferty

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Megan Fox

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

Megan Fox

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

Max Muller

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.

Nikola Tesla

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

Nikola Tesla

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Nikola Tesla

Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence-by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. ... So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Nikola Tesla

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Nikola Tesla

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Nicole Holofcener

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Nicole Krauss

All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

N. T. Wright

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

N. T. Wright

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Mort Sahl

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

Monica Raymund

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Montgomery Clift

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Monica Lewinsky

I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Miranda Otto

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

Miranda Hart

We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not.