Self Quotes - Page 16

• Up, then, with speed, and work;
  Fling ease and self away--
  This is no time for thee to sleep--
  Up, watch, and work, and pray!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sleep, Watches, Ease

  Horatius Bonar (1858). “Hymns of Faith and Hope ... Third edition”, p.262

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• Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

  Mordecai Richler

  Scene, Knocking, Masters

  Mordecai Richler (1970). “Canadian writing today”, Penguin Books

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• I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Independent, America, Goal

  "A War Tat is Finishe". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Negative

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Exercise, Simple

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Moral, Judgment

  Charlotte Bunch, Nancy Myron (1974). “Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies”

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• Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Problem

  Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Years

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• Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

  Aaron Hill

  Shadow, Needs, Birth

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• Who you are depends on who you meet.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Identity, Depends, Who You Are

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2006). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.88, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Training, Encounters, Groups

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• The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Art, Creativity, Dedication

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• We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

  Anita Roddick

  Self Confidence, Government, Roots

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Acceptance, Feminist

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• Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Art, Civilization

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.10, London : Strahan

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• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Travel, Self Esteem, Journey

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

  Valerie Solanas

  Lying, Philosophical, Goal

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• There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Blood, Voice, Knowing

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• I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Giving Up, Giving

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• Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

  Susan Griffin

  Eye, Reflection, Feet

  Susan Griffin (2001). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, Broadway

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• My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.

  Carol Gilligan

  Men, Vocabulary, Different

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Thinking, Revelations

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dream, Real, Jewels

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