S Quotes
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“Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.”
“Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.”
Source: The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or Book of Revelations Explained
“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”
“Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher Self carry them out, believe that you are enough in and of yourself, heed the tenderness and sweetness of your love for others, put your attention on positive energies in every situation, honor your own needs without having to seek outside approval, and cultivate the peace of inner silence.”
Source: Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need
“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.”
“Self-love helps me make positive changes easily”
“Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.”
“Self-love is a big part of golf.”
“Self-love is a busy prompter.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden
“Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’”
“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”
“Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.”
“Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.”
“Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.”
Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays
“Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.”
“Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.”
“Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.”
“Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.”
“Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.”
“Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.”
Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm
“Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.”
“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
“Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.”
“Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.”
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
“Self-love is the starting point for everything.”
“Self-love knows no impediment.”
“Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.”
“Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.”
“Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.”
Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
“Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.”
Source: Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue
“Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.”
“Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
“Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.”
“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that no action could attend,
And, but for this, were active to no end:
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.”
“Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.”
“Self-made men often worship their creator.”
“Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.”
“Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.”