Self Centered Quotes - Page 4

• If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Self, People

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• Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Freedom, Self, Years

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• We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Mean, Self

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've been obsessed with for months, you're playing them for hundreds of people.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, Self, People

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• 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.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Strong, Self Esteem, Selfish

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• Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

  Joko Beck

  Self, Joy, Ordinary

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• If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

  Danny Trejo

  Selfish, People, Looks

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, Self, Luxury

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah's day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God's warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It's something I long for.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Heart, Self

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• The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don't know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Self, Who I Am

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

  Rick Warren

  Humble, Self, Purpose

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• It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Thinking, Self

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• I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

  Norman Rockwell

  Baseball, Mother, Kids

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• I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

  Cary Grant

  Self, Giving, Experience

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• I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Ego, Cameras, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

  Eric Butterworth

  Lying, Focus, Secret

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• I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

  Denis Leary

  Self, Greedy, Stills

  "Denis Leary Talks THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and Final Season of RESCUE ME, Confirms He’s in SPIDER-MAN Sequels". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2011.

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• It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  Selfish, People, Self

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.

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• For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

  Sengcan

  Self, Doubt, Mind

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• Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Hatred, Literature

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

  Alice Munro

  Self, People, Diaries

  "On "Dear Life": An Interview with Alice Munro". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

  David A. Bednar

  Self, People, Bless

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