Self Quotes - Page 295

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.