Best hard & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.”

Ifs Ends Self Hard Done Enough Happens Moving Roles Pops Self Confidence Territory

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”

Giving Self Hard Eye Faces Quality Hair Shapes Clothes Size Oneself Treasure Length Your Face

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes

“Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.”

Thinking Trying Self Hard Conscious Essence Uniqueness Glamour Self Conscious Trying Really Hard

Book:Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

Source: Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”

People Kind Ideas Real Self Hard Joy Artist Prayer Becoming Communicate Hard Times Righteousness Exclusive Self Righteousness Real Joy Smugness

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.”

Self Hard Facts Three Subjects Cost Nonsense Righteous Self Righteous

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.”

Want Believe Self Hard Joy Choices Practice Achieve Habit Discipline Self Control Beginning Of Life Disciplined Life

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.”

People Knows Believe Self Hard Government Community Decision Leader Hard Work Integrity Gains Careful Core Planning Partisanship Careful Planning

Author:Linda Lingle

“Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!”

Self Hard Self Confidence Hardened

Book:The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great

Source: The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great

“My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.”

Wells Self Hard Wisdom Faces Felt Powerful Grief Comfortable And Love Aging Self Confidence Forty Dew Tapping

Author:Nancy A. Collins

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.”

Ifs Self Hard Seems Beautiful Answers Wonder Mystery Lonely Busy Solitary Evident Lonesome Excursions

Author:John Muir

“Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.”

Self Hard Strong Self Esteem Hard Work Mental Health Selfish Esteem Related Complacency Self Centered Self Absorbed Overconfidence Being Self Centered

Author:Glenn R. Schiraldi

“Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.”

Knows Giving May Mean Self Hard Decision Careers Ordinary Yoga Extraordinary Karma Ordinary Life Karma Yoga Extraordinary Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds.”

People Knows Mind Self Hard Creative Complexes Paradox Standing Out Imaginative Creative People

Author:Scott Barry Kaufman

“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.”

“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .”

Self Hard Strong Nations Community Hard Work Proud Worship Faith In God Consumption Indulgence Self Indulgence No Confidence Malaise Strong Family

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”

“Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.”

Self Hard Actors Tough Fellows Chicago

Author:Bill Murray

“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”

Self Hard Able Opportunity Force Missing Prove Survival Illusion Driving Painter Extras Ambitious Driving Force Sceptic Publicists

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”

Trying Self Hard Fall Good Times Having A Good Time Self Actualization Actualization

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Hard States Accepting Achieve Worst Willing Conscious Tasks Good Things Opening Vulnerable Insecure Self Conscious Your Presence

Author:Esther Earl

“Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.”

Self Hard Strive Ancient Philosopher Ancient Times

Book:The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology

Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology

“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

Way Self Hard Individual Given Responsibility Generations Hard Work Discipline Capacity Self Discipline Fortitude Relentless My Generation Grim Individual Responsibility

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.”

Littles Important War Self Hard Kids Stars Felt

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.”

Self Hard Hard Work Accountability

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.”

Self Hard Rooms Moon Creating Core Mood Transformed Grey Orange Mist Faded Dreamy Hard Core Whistler

Author:Mark Tobey

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.”

People Thinking Self Sometimes Hard Problem Past Given Struggle One Thing Constant Bones Ridiculous Thanks Crush Hard Times Tragic Insecurity Upbringing

Author:Mark Oliver

“What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else's.”

Mind Kind Persons Important Self Hard Hard Work Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Buddhist Keep Going Etiquette Own Business

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.”

Mean Self Hard Motivation Environment Effects Self Esteem Hard Work Program Perseverance Esteem Traits Intervention Adverse

Author:James Heckman

“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.”

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.”

Self Hard Reason Selfishness Peculiar Hobbies Disposition Miraculous Hateful Conceit Calculations Avarice Ingenuity Subtlety Meanness Eccentricity Caprice Callous

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.”

Firsts Heart Self Hard Love Is Cases Ready Judging Self Love Thirds Overcoming Strive Defeat Sentences Flattery Jury Executioners Sophistry

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

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