Self Quotes - Page 311

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 full-on metamorphosis.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.

The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.

Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

At the end of the day, we each have a different definition for beauty, but being yourself is the most important.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.