S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.”
“Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.”
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.”
“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme”
“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.”
“Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.”
“Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.”
“Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.”
“Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.”
Source: Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society: An Anthology of Mike Hulme's Essays, Interviews and Speeches
“Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.”
“Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.”
Source: Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.”
“Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.”
Source: A Burnt-Out Case
“Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.”
“Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.”
“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”
“Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.”
“Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”
“Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.”
“Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.”
“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.”
Source: Myself
“Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.”
“Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.”
“Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.”
Source: The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover
“Self-government means self support.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.”
“Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.”
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.”
“Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.”
“Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.”
“Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.”
“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.”
“Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'”
“Self-help is the best help”
Source: Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories
“Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.”
“Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.”
“Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.”
“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
“Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.”
“Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!”
“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”