All Quotes

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
‐‐ May Sarton

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Self-respect knows no considerations.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
‐‐ Joe Clark

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
‐‐ David Brin

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
‐‐ John McCarthy

Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
‐‐ Margaret Deland

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
‐‐ Richard Cecil

Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do a photo.' I'm not anti-selfie, but I like a classic photograph.
‐‐ Marin Cilic

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.
‐‐ Herb Alpert

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
‐‐ Israel Zangwill

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
‐‐ Tecumseh

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.
‐‐ Burt Lancaster

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.
‐‐ Sean Penn

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
‐‐ Elon Musk

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
‐‐ Dexter Holland

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
‐‐ Emile Zola

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
‐‐ Chuck Grassley

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
‐‐ Don Henley

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.
‐‐ Shirley Manson

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
‐‐ TobyMac

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.
‐‐ Diplo

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
‐‐ Bono

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
‐‐ Thomas Frank