Self Quotes

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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this! — Jennifer Lacy
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than… — James Surowiecki
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we… — Joko Beck
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me… — William Wordsworth
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! — Eric Hoffer
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views… — Doris Lessing
As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire… — Kate Winslet
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that… — Kristen Bell
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around… — Ansel Adams
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world… — Aaron Siskind
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where… — Jerry Uelsmann
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. — Mindy Kaling
I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her… — Kristen Bell
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with… — Jerry Uelsmann

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