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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

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer

already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well. — Jo Nesbo

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

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

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

If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way. — Bell Hooks

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

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self. — N. T. Wright

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

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx

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

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. — Zig Ziglar

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. — Petrarch

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt. — Susan Sontag

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

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it. — Subhash Kak

If you do not change, you can become extinct ! — Spencer Johnson

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh

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

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen

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

A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes. — Auliq Ice

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

Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. — Subodh Gupta

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy. — Wayne Dyer

The Lord God is my strength. He sustains my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth. — Bryant McGill

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

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. — John Calvin

N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem! — Roy Moore

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. — Philip K. Dick

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato

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

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

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

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges? — Mason Cooley

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover's eyes. — Vironika Tugaleva

I kind of felt like he carried his whole self around with him. When he was with me, he was really with me. — Patrick Carman

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. — Auliq Ice