Self-contempt Quotes
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Self-contempt Quotes & Sayings
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It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
— Jerzy Kosinski
A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
— Octavio Paz
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
— Eric Hoffer
Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
— John Wooden
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?
— Rob Brezsny
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
— Patti Smith
For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
If we being to ready the Bible daily; we will awake the divinity of our souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
— J. Loren Norris
Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
— Farrah Naseem
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
— William Hazlitt
I am most grateful to the Lord for the gift of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson
Fear must be conquered with faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.
— Leonid Brezhnev
Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
— Balroop Singh
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
— Jean Edward Smith
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
— Gary Chapman
You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity
— Ikechukwu Joseph
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
— Christopher Moore
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
— C. Terry Warner
TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
— T.S. Joyce
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
— George Bernard Shaw
To enter your true self,check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
All good things spring from Self-Love
— N. Sophronia Crosby
I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.
— Oli Anderson
I'm awash in self-contempt!
— Woody Allen
The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.
— Blaise Pascal
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
— Monica Edwards
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't mask self-doubt with contempt.
— Zadie Smith
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
— Ambrose Bierce
Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.
— Robert Black
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
— G.K. Chesterton
I need time every day to think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
— Nick Hornby
Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.
— Steve Maraboli
I am not immersed in self-admiration.
— Saul Leiter
Conceited is just another word for self-confident. And sometimes, the only confidence one can depend on is his own.
— Suzannah Daniels
I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.
— Denise Bidot
If you do not change, you can become extinct !
— Spencer Johnson
Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.
— Toni Sorenson
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.
— Stephanie Grant
American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
— Saul Williams
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
— Christina Baldwin
The Lord God is my strength. He sustains my spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-plagiarism is style.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
— Peter Deunov
N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'Subliminal messaging works! — Nick Jimbanis
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
— Sextus Empiricus
It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.
— Miriam A. Walker
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
— Philip K. Dick
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
— Marvin J. Ashton
Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
— Billy Forbes
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
You cannot fix what you will not face.
— James A. Baldwin
Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.
— Marcus Aurelius
The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble
— Toni Sorenson
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
— Robert Breault
When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover's eyes.
— Vironika Tugaleva
