Self Quotes - Page 413

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself