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Self Quotes by Martha Beck
- No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from…
- Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a…
- Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed…
- Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.
- To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
- Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our…
- Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
- To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
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