Best self & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.”

Needs Self Opinion Self Deprecating Self Deprecation Self Deprecating Humor Self Opinion

“The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.”

Needs Soul Self Age Dark Defense Psychics Dark Ages Self Defense

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”

People Needs Art Book Self Might Choices Winning Energy Social Easy Views Media Social Media Self Worth Likes Followers Venture

Author:Neil Strauss

“Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.”

Needs Looks Self Done Car Spread Driving Suburbs Parking Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

Inspirational Needs Self Energy Loses Buddhism Type Discovery Holes Self Discovery Concentration Basics Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Self Would Be Pleasure Quality Dose Quality Time

Author:Lydia Lunch

“In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.”

“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.”

Needs Self Bits Difficult Spots Delusion Self Delusion

Author:John Ralston Saul

“I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.”

Needs Self Done Hours Minutes Seven Eight Yesterday Loathing Work Done Self Loathing

Author:Dave Eggers

“If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.”

People Ifs Want Needs Giving Feels Persons Important Self Shows Wish Attention Consideration Love Respect Show Respect Consideration For Others

Author:Ari Kiev

“We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.”

Needs Art Self Past Alive Letting Go Grievance Younger Self

Author:Gordon Livingston

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.”

“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”

“When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!”

“Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.”

Needs Self Culture Parent Teaching Security Expectations Encouragement Clarity Balanced Self Reliance Reliance Educator Playfulness

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.”

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.”

Needs Self Selfish Righteous Self Righteous Unintelligent

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.”

Needs Self Moving Born Skills Mountain Passionate Possession Self Confidence Enthusiasm Substitutes Intensity Move Mountains

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.”

Men Needs Self Interest Morality Instinct Solitary Self Interest Gregarious

Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.”

Needs Self Doubt Keys Worthy I've Learned Keep Going Mastery Key To Success Animated Self-doubt

Author:Will Smith

“Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.”

Ifs Needs Should Mean Persons Self Facts Bigs Spiritual Belief Forget Views Worry Seeing Shoes Oneself Point Of View Reaching Divinity Serving Cheer Adjustment Baba

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”

Needs Feels Self Turns Black White Discovery Self Discovery Painter Black And White

Author:Barnett Newman

“Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.”

Needs Wells Self Results Self Esteem Esteem

Author:Martin Seligman

“When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.”

Needs Self Feelings Empowerment Realising

Author:Jim Fixx

“In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.”

Needs Heart Book Self Comfort Fame Self Confidence Gaga

Author:Lady Gaga

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.”

Needs Self Waiting Collaboration Gallery

Author:Jack White

“I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.”

Needs Feels Self Age Aging Naked Portraits Reminders Acid Self Portrait Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“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

“The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.”

Way Needs Doe Self Helping Spirit Self Help Helping Others Brotherhood

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.”

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

Needs Should Self House Behinds Brain Materials Stones Meetings Ghost Encounters Host Interiors Midnight Chamber Concealed Confronting Corridors Lonesome Surpassing Abbey

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.”

Ifs Needs Looks Self Christian Spirit Jesus Christ Walks Lord Depends Walking Glory Draws Jesus Christ Believer Occupation Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Arno C. Gaebelein

“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Kind Two Ends Self Motivational Findings Losing Madness Breathing Contemplation Two Things Finding Yourself Balanced Losing Yourself Balanced Life Stepping Back

Author:Pico Iyer

“For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.”

People Needs Mean Self Audience Share Fashion Expression Clothes Self Expression

Author:Anna Dello Russo

“It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.”

Knows Needs Self Sometimes Jobs Artist Stuff Process Records Materials Offers Criticism Ears Objectives Sufficient Filling Vary Self Sufficient Hector Filling In

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.”

Way Needs Self Felt Understood Anger Integrated

Author:Tian Dayton

“While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.”

Needs Self Creativity Expression Expectations Self Expression

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.”

Way Needs Mind Heart Self Moments Opportunity Natural Ability Perfect Responsibility Unique Response Contact Recognizing Guru Satsang

Author:Mooji

“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don't listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based protein sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping feeding it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!”

“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”

Needs Kind Self Interest Rooms Wise Trust Concern Accounts Driven Genuine Operations Generous Cheating Bullying Exploitation Self Interest Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”

Needs Self Authority Self Control Veins

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Self Wish He Man Mass Conscience Cease

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

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