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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
— Tanit Phoenix
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
— Christie Hefner
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
— Jim Harrison
There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.
— Gary Hopkins
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
— Dalai Lama
You can kill me, you mean. You can destroy my sense of self and replace it with one you approve of.
— Ann Leckie
Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
— Denis Waitley
The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something
— Elliott Colla
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
— Gay Talese
Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.
— Frederick Lenz
The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?
— Hope Jahren
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
— Criss Jami
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
— Jeannette Walls
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
— Miguel Nicolelis
People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.
— Stefan Emunds
The sense of community is indispensable ... to full self-realization.
— Herbert J. Muller
I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.
— Christina Hendricks
When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.
— Jay Leno
Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.
— Harper Lee
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
— Bryant H. McGill
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
— Dan Millman
She'd felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.
— Marie Rutkoski
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance
— Elisabeth Y. Fitzhugh
we don't develop along these lines, we will have poor differentiation and a very fragile sense of self. We will feel overly anxious about being loved
— Allen Berger
A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
— John Gray
I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.
— Will Ferrell
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
— Mika Brzezinski
With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Her sense of humor is indistinguishable from her sense of self.
— David Levithan
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
— Frederick Lenz
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self.
— Erich Fromm
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
— Gretchen Wilson
I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.
— Ray Lamontagne
The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.
— Thornton Wilder
I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it.
— Rachel Caine
Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other.
— Rollo May
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
— Dan Chaon
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.
— Dean Ornish
When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.
— Dacha Avelin
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
— Alice S. Rossi
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
— Stephen Covey
One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
— Stephen Rodrick
Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.
— Martha Wells
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
— Camille Paglia
Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
— Will Self
I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
— Beatrice Sparks
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
— Frederick Lenz
Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
— Cressida Cowell
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
— Susan Jeffers
Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth.
— Sue Grafton
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
— Aberjhani
Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.
— Lolah Runda
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.
— Robert Kraft
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
— Will Self
It's not about what people think. It's about who you are.
— Cinda Williams Chima
Rado explains that people with depression are usually too dependent on the judgments of others for their own sense of self-esteem.
— Nick Dubin
A poor childhood in West Virginia had left Maura with a strong sense of self-reliance, a high tolerance for discomfort, and a black sense of humor.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
— Samantha Harvey
We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.
— Tom Butler-Bowdon
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
— Daniel Klein
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
— Marianne Williamson
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
— Samuel Smiles
Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations.
— Derek Wall
To maintain the supreme sense of self-confidence I have cultivated, I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm.
— Robin S. Sharma
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
— Paul Wellstone
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents
— Sonya Withrow
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sense of worth and self-confidence comes when you accept yourself as you are. not when you're trying to be what other people expect.
— Auliq Ice
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
— Virginia Postrel
A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect.
— David Schnarch
Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.
— Stefan Emunds
When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.
— Brandon Flowers
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
— Ronald Frame
Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.
— Daniel M. Wegner
Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.
— Rhondra O. Willis
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
— Nalini Singh
I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
— Laverne Cox