Self Quotes · Page 87

The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central…

— Hal Porter

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He…

— John Stott

The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the…

— Harlan Ellison

The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something…

— John Caples

Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today…

— Russell Pearce

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times…

— William Bridges

It's only in the act of pushing yourself, challenging yourself to make a contribution to your community, to your family, to your…

— Eric Greitens

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has…

— Ayn Rand

I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in…

— Chris Sharma

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it…

— Anonymous

I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable.…

— Henry Rollins

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

— Mordecai Richler

Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love;…

— Criss Jami

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…

— Allen Ginsberg

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,…

— Terri E Apter

Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the…

— Frederick Lenz

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about…

— William Maxwell

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

— Friedrich Schiller

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making…

— Ferdinand Mount

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

— Eric Hoffer

Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do…

— Anuj

It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our…

— Jason Silva

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere…

— William Butler Yeats

... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and…

— James Randi

Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish…

— Edgar Cayce

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned,…

— Mia Hamm

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

— Tryon Edwards

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be…

— Chuck Klosterman

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making…

— Jack Canfield

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience…

— Nathaniel Branden

As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of…

— Roseanne Barr