Self Quotes - Page 472

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

All things are already complete in oneself.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I have a list as long as my arm but I find those lists sort of self-defeating because you start to name and then after [the interviewer] leaves the room you go 'Ah, I forgot this person or that person.' So I just don't do it anymore. Hopefully if you make work that people like, they'll get in contact with you.