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Self Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
- But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured,…
- Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
- The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion…
- Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you…
- I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
- I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way…
- It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them…
- Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
- Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
- Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster