One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
I am pretty self-indulgent.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.