Quotes about self
self immaturity delay
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. Mike Murdock
self
Your self-portait decides your conduct.
self long-ago sometimes
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Mignon McLaughlin
self born
Born to myself, I like myself alone. John Wilmot
self practice common-sense
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. John Wooden
selfishness ends
Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
self evaluation inevitable
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
selfish struggle practice
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. John Ruskin
selfish evil might
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
self cities rising
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
self knowing-god knows
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
self soul substance
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. John Owen
self soul sin
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
self views imagination
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
self mind beloved
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
self helping positive-change
Self-love helps me make positive changes easily Louise Hay
self-esteem love-yourself loving-yourself
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
self-love messages body
I listen with love to my body's messages.
self-esteem heart planets
There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.
self facts characteristics
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, Louis Althusser
selfish nice reading
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. Logan Pearsall Smith
self mirrors people
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
selfish care sound
I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost. Manolo Blahnik
self tunes looks
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed. Madeline Kahn
self kind consciousness
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom
self lapses want
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others. Lucy Maud Montgomery
self-esteem winning race
Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape. Louis Zamperini
self hell born
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
self
…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. Louisa May Alcott
self years profound
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. John Glenn
self ruins
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? John Fowles
self age adulthood
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
self rights people
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant. John F. Kennedy