Self Quotes - Page 81

Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.