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Self Quotes by Joan Didion
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I…
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose…
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval…
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
- Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
- To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain…
- To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the…
- The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
- Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back…
- To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
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