All About Self Quotes

#1. Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.

Congressman X

#2. It's all about self-preservation now, dying doesn't scare me, it's whatever he has planned for me before it comes to the end that does. After all, it takes more courage to suffer than to die. And I'm not about to give in easily.

Danielle Dickson

#3. It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

James St. James

#4. It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

Greg Giraldo

#5. I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil ... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

Gail O'Grady

#6. Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Eric Clapton

#7. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.

Anonymous

#8. I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#9. All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

Ryan Giggs

#10. Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help!

Mika.

#11. Being best at things has nothing to do with talent; it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Hoda Kotb

#13. Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Gene Luen Yang

#14. Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

Joan Armatrading

#15. When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

Larry Ellison

#16. I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss my ass. If I want something badly enough, I can have it. If I focus, sacrifice, there is nothing I can't do.

Emma Chase

#17. Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#18. It's all about self-satisfaction, doesn't matter how hard you try, you can't do it, theirs no way you can change the world.

Lelouch Vi Britannia

#19. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#20. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All

Krista Ritchie

#22. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.

Toru Iwatani

#23. The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Amy Chua

#24. It's all about how you feel, not how you look

Sean Covey

#25. There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

Coco Rocha

#26. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

#27. Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings ... Was this what it meant to be creative?

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Lenny Kravitz

#29. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

Sharon Law Tucker

#30. As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

John De Ruiter

#31. I had a dream about you last week. It was October 31, 2002 and we met at a Halloween party. You came dressed as yourself; I knew you've been hiding your true self all this time.

Rodney Jenkins

#32. Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.

Leah Raeder

#33. Its never what others think of you that determines whether or not you succeed. Its all about what you think of yourself. All the work in the world cannot overcome self-doubt.

A.M. Sawyer

#34. When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

Steve Coogan

#35. Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate.

Haruki Murakami

#36. So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

Lawrence Kushner

#37. Our self- development is all about conquering and recreating ourselves

Sunday Adelaja

#38. Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

Edward Abbey

#39. being a success in real life is all about being consequence with anything we did

Toge Aprilianto

#40. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

Kenneth Wapnick

#41. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

Andrew Neff

#42. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

Gail Godwin

#43. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#44. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

Lizzo

#45. I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Mark Slouka

#46. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?

Quentin R. Bufogle

#47. Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

Kiefer Sutherland

#48. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Tyra Banks

#49. All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting ... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there ... I think of it as my serious playground.

Laura Nyro

#50. That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron.

Aldous Huxley

#51. You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Alice Walker

#52. I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

Rineke Dijkstra

#53. There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#54. My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.

Emma Stone

#55. I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in your head a lot. And you're writing and you're doubting. But when I'm with my kids and my family, it's all about them.

Chris Rock

#56. When we limit ourselves by being the person we "should" be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.

Henna Inam

#57. I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

George Carlin

#58. All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#59. There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.

Robert Twigger

#60. But why? Why do you care about our class's history?"
"I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides 'Locks self in room and draws all day.' Even art schools won't take a psychopath.

Natalie Standiford

#61. I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.

Justin Vernon

#62. There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

John Campbell Shairp

#63. The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

Fred Alan Wolf

#64. Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.

Charlene Costanzo

#65. There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

Colin Cotterill

#66. It makes you wonder. How much you can know about a thing, a person. If you can know anything at all. Maybe no one's who we think they are. No one. Makes you doubt yourself, wonder if you even know yourself or if you've been lyin, too, along with everybody else.

Marianne Wiggins

#67. Self-criticism is a way of life in North Korea. Everybody has to do it, even the highest party members. Our sessions were once a week on Monday mornings. All through the week, we were supposed to keep a diary, where we wrote about the times we failed to live up to Kim Il-sung's teachings.

Charles Robert Jenkins

#68. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Simon Armitage

#69. You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Lauren Holly

#70. Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

Stephenie Meyer

#71. Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

Margaret Atwood

#72. A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

Otto Weininger

#73. Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

Alexander MacLaren

#74. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Hayao Miyazaki

#75. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#76. Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.

David Brin

#77. As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.

James Collins

#78. Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Hermann Hesse

#79. I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We're all going to have bummer moments. That's not the stuff I choose to share.

Jason Mraz

#80. Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

Craig Mercier

#81. What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.

Jonny Greenwood

#82. Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

James L. Buckley

#83. Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Greg LeMond

#84. Edna looked straight before her with a self-absorbed expression upon her face. She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

Kate Chopin

#85. The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Jean M. Twenge

#86. We all have our weak moments when we believe the worst things we think about ourselves.

Marty Rubin

#87. Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

#88. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Mark Twain

#89. We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to it as if it were a lifesaver, even though the obsession with it is often the very thing that drags us down and prevents us from fulfilling some lesser but more obtainable goal.

Stephen McCauley

#90. For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

Sidney Greenberg

#91. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Ann Brashares

#92. Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.

Patricia Churchland

#93. Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

Taite Adams

#94. The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to ... (hesitates) ... me. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

#95. Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

Becky Chambers

#96. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.

Raynetta Manees

#97. Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

Solange Knowles

#98. Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Craig Venter

#99. It's amazing though," said Kenneth, "what you can get away with if you give up caring about anything else, like self-respect and pride and all that stuff. Turning yourself into a projectile, so to speak.

Amy Witting

#100. Half my life was spent trying to be a better person, but you reach a certain age and you realize you don't have a choice about who you are. All of us are slaves to ourselves.

Gareth P. Jones