Self Quotes - Page 366

When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Those who can command themselves command others.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.