Self Quotes - Page 14

• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Men, Choices

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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• That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Money, Commitment, Dedication

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• clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Expression, Clothes, Form

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall

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• Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

  Ashley Judd

  Spring, Factors

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• In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Prayer, Voice, Identity

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• Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

  Mina Loy

  Appreciation

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

  Alison Lurie

  Land, America, People

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• But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

  Alison Lurie

  Thinking, Doe, Breakfast

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

  Camryn Manheim

  Acceptance, Giving, Done

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• Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Drinking, Simple, Animal

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.

  Bob Proctor

  Self Confidence, Mind, Want

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 14, 2013

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• people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

  Suze Orman

  Money, People, Feelings

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• As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Fall, Self Worth

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• I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

  Kathy Reichs

  Strong, Thinking, Silence

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

  Amy Sedaris

  Self Esteem, People, Wish

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• An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

  Edith Stein

  Body, Impossible, Possibility

  Edith Stein (1989). “On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3”, p.47, ICS Publications

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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Demand, Fields

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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• Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

  Jane Smiley

  Ignorance, Mind, Characteristics

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.222, Anchor

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Effort, Together, Trying

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

  Jessica Tandy

  Creativity, Thinking, Creating

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• Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

  Garry Wills

  Children, Politician, Good Company

  "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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• acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Acceptance, Steps

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• night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

  Ethel Smyth

  Strong, Sleep, Golf

  Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  Candice Millard

  Ideas, Landscape Architecture, Reinvention

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• Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Confidence, Knowing, Goal

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