Quotations
Names:
Will Self
Quotes:
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph Ellison
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
View quotes by Tyra Banks
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
View quotes by Learned Hand
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
View quotes by Jay Leno
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
View quotes by Albert Pike
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
View quotes by Maxwell Maltz
Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry Blofeld
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...
View quotes by Thomas Szasz
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
View quotes by Arthur Ashe
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.
View quotes by Alec Baldwin
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
View quotes by Kurt Cobain
Self destructiveness is given a really bad rap. It can mean self-reflection, poetic sensibility, empathy, hedonism and libertarianism.
View quotes by Courtney Love
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned
View quotes by Jane Haddam
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man
View quotes by Mencius
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
View quotes by William J Clinton
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Proverbs:
Love Thy Neighbour As Thy Self
There Is Always Somebody Worst Of Then Yourself No Matter How Bad Things Seem
Your Day Starts With What You Say To Yourself
To Thine Own Self Be True
He That Teaches Himself Has A Fool For His Master
What You See In Yourself Is What You See In The World
Teachers Open The Door, But You Must Enter By Yourself
To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart
He Who Does Not Honour His Wife Dishonours Himself
Every Ass Loves To Hear Himself Bray
When I Turned Myself Over To God, I Took My Life Out The Hands Of An Idiot
Every Bird Loves To Hear Himself Sing
Do Not Praise Yourself While Going Into Battle; Praise Yourself Coming Out Of Battle
To Deceive Oneself Is Very Easy
He That Is Master Of Himself, Will Soon Be Master Of Others
God Defend Me From My Friends; From My Enemies I Can Defend Myself
Pardon All But Theyself
History Repeats Itself
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