Self Quotes - Page 440

Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.