Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.
Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!
Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.