I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence) is not an activity of the Self. It is an intermediate state. The… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self -… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying,… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“Chanchad (restless, unsteadiness, unstill) cannot become acchad (still, steady) and acchad cannot become chanchad. One (The True Self) has to remain in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose Copy Share Image
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long Copy Share Image
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of… — Oseola McCarty Copy Share Image
“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image