Self Quotes
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.
I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.
That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.
I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.
Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.
