Self Quotes - Page 14

• That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Money, Commitment, Dedication

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, People

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

  Kathy Reichs

  Strong, Thinking, Silence

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

  Nancy Friday

  Sex, Fall, Men

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, People

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• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Men, Choices

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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• clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Expression, Clothes, Form

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall

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• Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Confidence, Knowing, Goal

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• Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Drinking, Simple, Animal

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

  Suze Orman

  Money, People, Feelings

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• As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Fall, Self Worth

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• An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

  Edith Stein

  Body, Impossible, Possibility

  Edith Stein (1989). “On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3”, p.47, ICS Publications

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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Demand, Fields

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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• I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

  Jessica Tandy

  Creativity, Thinking, Creating

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• Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

  Garry Wills

  Children, Politician, Good Company

  "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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• In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Prayer, Voice, Identity

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• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  Candice Millard

  Ideas, Landscape Architecture, Reinvention

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

  Shakira

  Self Confidence, Makeup

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• Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Spheres, Fitting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 669-70, True Rest, 1922.

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• Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Stones, Virtue, Corners

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• The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Journey, Discovery

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• The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Neglect, Teach, Poorest

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothing could fill me up except myself. So I went into analysis. I went to see a doctor, to talk about my lack of self-esteem. I don't know how to say it better: my lack of self-esteem, my insecurity, and how these things were not going to fill me up. And I'd better fix myself and then find out what I liked. For me, therapy was the greatest gift I could ever give myself. There's nothing I could have done for myself that would've been better.

  Sherry Lansing

  Self Esteem, Fall, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Skills, Space

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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