Quotes of: Self-confidence Keyword

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

The Greek Way

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

The Blind Assassin

A blanket of self-regulated trust on a bed of deceit.  

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

By Blood We Live

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Jennifer Armintrout

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Shannen Doherty

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Gloria Steinem

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

Ariel Garten

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean-Luc Godard

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

Kim Gordon

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

I Am: The Key To Manifesting

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

black identities are diverse and complex…

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Selected Essays

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Selected Essays