Self Quotes · Page 225

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

— Susan Cain

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

— Jo Coudert

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

— Simon Mainwaring

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

— Sanjaya Malakar

Express yourself and don't mind about what other people say, because in the end it is you, not them.

— Anonymous

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

— John Banville

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

— Charles Colson

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

— Erwin McManus

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

— Aldo Leopold

...slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need…

— Craig Ferguson

There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great…

— Robert Twigger

It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in…

— Antonin Scalia

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The essence of life is those little moments we spent alone with ourselves and still feel good about who we really are.

— Laylablack

If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your…

— Leon Brown

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

— Laozi

There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as…

— George W. Bush

We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we…

— Nhat Hanh

If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the…

— Adam Braver

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as…

— M. Scott Peck

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because…

— Tori Amos

When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really…

— Anthony Pettis

If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are…

— Augusten Burroughs

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense…

— Frank Chodorov

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

— Baltasar Gracian

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

— Franz Kafka

“The boundaries that we face in life are mostly those we self-construct.”

— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

— Kanye West

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

— Frederick Lenz

There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.

— Sylvia Day

“The most important thing in your life is learning how to be your true self.”

— Shiva Negi

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

— John Bradshaw

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

— John Seely Brown

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

— Erma Bombeck

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

— Anonymous

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

— Felix Dennis

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

— Peter Kreeft

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey