4,826 Quotes About Self

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.