Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Perseverance is always the way to go. You have to stay mentally prepared. You have to make sure you have some self… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it… — Jude Bijou Copy Share Image
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached:… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body… — Alyssa Harad Copy Share Image
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is no mention of the Soul (Atma) at all in all that which is present in the world. To See-Know (jovu-jaanvu)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are? If you can't… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
“Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
