Self Quotes - Page 422

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

All significant battles are fought within self.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?

Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.