Self Effacement Quotes

#1. If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

Russell Brand

#2. Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. For example, the early Girl Scout handbooks preached an ethic of self-sacrifice and self-effacement. The chief obstacle to happiness, the handbook exhorted, comes from the overeager desire to have people think about you.

David Brooks

#4. Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

Nancy Kress

#5. I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.

Courtney Milan

#6. To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Dag Hammarskjold

#7. So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs

#8. The ultimate self-effacement
is not the pretense of the minimal,
but the jocular considerations of the maximal
in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

Mark Strand

#9. Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

#10. I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Stephanie Grant

#11. There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Edward Abbey

#12. When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it's your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

Jillian Michaels

#14. When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

Dean Koontz

#15. My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

Domhnall Gleeson

#16. Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Jeanette Winterson

#17. A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw ... safety

Richelle Mead

#18. This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Muhammad Ali

#19. What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Christian Harrison

#20. We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

Philip K. Dick

#21. I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.

Kyle Schmid

#22. Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#23. Anyone can have an off decade.

Larry Cole

#24. Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

Ernest Holmes

#25. People punish themselves - sometimes for years. But it's not always necessary. Forgiveness allows everybody to start again, not to be burdened with a whole lot of old business.

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. Worship is directed to the Other in himself, to his all-sufficiency, but now it refers itself to the Other who alone can extricate me from the knot that I myself cannot untie.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.

Hugh Jackman

#28. And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

John Crowe Ransom

#29. The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

Russell Sherman

#31. Like the birds I will fly.

Victoria Forester

#32. Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots.

C.Z. Hazard