Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

David D. Burns

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

David D. Burns

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

David D. Burns

If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.

David Suchet

I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.

Byron Katie

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Dennis Prager

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

P. J. O'Rourke

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

LeRoy Neiman

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

John C. Calhoun

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Katherine Boo

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

Samuel Johnson

There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Suze Orman

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.