Self Quotes - Page 495

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.