We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of…

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

— Nalini Singh

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but…

— Anthony Giddens

“Not only can depression separate you from yourself, if it lingers too long, as it did with Sally Brampton, you can lose your sense…

— Nick Dubin

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves,…

— Rebecca Solnit

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

“In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight than our…

— Marsha Sinetar

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying…

— Albert Bandura

I will always be fashion. I try to pull it together. I think that comes from a sense of self. That's how you create…

— Erika Jayne

Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have…

— Heart Evangelista

“We do not know how to make ourselves feel worthwhile on our own, and unless we specifically learn how to value ourselves, we go…

— Kevin Solomons

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in…

— Angelina Jolie

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind.…

— Frederick Lenz

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

— LeAnn Rimes

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

— Autumn Reeser