The Self Quotes
I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.
Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.
Let yourself daydream sometimes... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.