The Self Quotes
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.
I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.
It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.
Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
