Self Quotes - Page 361

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I'm not just doing it for self-gain, I'm doing it to help others.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.