Self Quotes - Page 342

Who were you before you put yourself last.

Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Remember that when you love yourself, you are a greater gift to someone else.

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.