Top 100 Are Self Quotes
#1. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.
Mike Shanahan
#3. My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
Dita Von Teese
#4. Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson
#6. Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
Kevin Kelly
#7. Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
Ludwig Von Mises
#8. It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
Eleanor Perenyi
#9. I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.
Ken Yeang
#10. Not all cloud-native platforms are the same. Some are self-built and pieced together from various components; others are black boxed and completely proprietary. The Cloud Foundry cloud-native platform has three defining characteristics: it is structured, opinionated, and open.
Duncan C. E. Winn
#11. Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
William J. Clinton
#12. People in government are self-interested just like people in business.
David Boaz
#13. In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.
Kate Del Castillo
#14. The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confident and I am incontinent ... they have opinions and I have lists.
Nick Hornby
#15. You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.
Rob Liano
#17. Many people claim to be liberated ... it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.
Frederick Lenz
#18. That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt
#19. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.
Donna Lynn Hope
#20. Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.
Esther Hicks
#21. Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Katharine Tynan
#22. The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.
Noam Chomsky
#23. For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.
Laozi
#25. There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
Publilius Syrus
#26. See the colorful possibilities from our life, we are self the creator from It to make a decision or stop it.stop
Jan Jansen
#27. All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.
Ron LeGrand
#28. You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
Sivananda Saraswati
#30. Systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It's almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning
Stephen R. Covey
#31. When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
Madeleine L'Engle
#32. The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
George Soros
#33. I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.
Dyllan McGee
#34. There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
Paul Arden
#35. My family would never approve of me firing a gun. They would say that guns are used for self-defense, if not violence, and therefore they are self-serving.
Veronica Roth
#36. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#37. People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
Bill Veeck
#41. We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.
Marc Maron
#42. Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.
Criss Jami
#43. I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
Mike White
#44. Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny ...
James A. Murphy
#45. Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities
Albert Bandura
#46. Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining.
Will Advise
#47. There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
Tadao Ando
#48. Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.
Gretchen Rubin
#49. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.
Irvin D. Yalom
#50. Mr. Dawkins' assertions are self-refuting- ie. Actual infinity vs. potential infinity easily makes the most reasonable argument for theism and a Deity. Now, the argument for the Creator God of Christianity requires much more time, energy, and logical effort."
~R. Alan Woods [2007]
R. Alan Woods
#51. We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.
Jon Katz
#52. I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo
#53. Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.
Suze Orman
#54. Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
Chellie Pingree
#55. People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.
Eric Hoffer
#56. Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex
Virginia Morell
#57. If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
Rabindranath Tagore
#58. The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was ... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
Joseph Prince
#59. Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Nancy Pearcey
#60. Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
David Foster
#61. The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Denis Waitley
#62. Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
Jeanette Winterson
#63. The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
Terence McKenna
#64. Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#65. I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.
Lorraine Toussaint
#66. Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.
Marc Almond
#67. Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.
Ronald Kessler
#68. I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
Julian Schnabel
#69. If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
Adyashanti
#70. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
Rita Rudner
#71. I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!
Suzanne Brockmann
#72. The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught
Stephen King
#75. While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
Sam Harris
#76. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.
Edward Said
#77. It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
Simone De Beauvoir
#78. Regenerate people feel through their minds and think through thier feelings. They are self-aware in a God-concious and God-centered way that is beyond the understanding of those who do not not actually share this life quality .
J.I. Packer
#79. There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.
Ivan Chermayeff
#80. Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."
Swami Vivekananda
#81. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Dean Koontz
#82. There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#83. All limits are self imposed.
Icarus
#84. The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.
Seth Godin
#85. Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.
Bryce Dessner
#86. All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand.
Cristian Mihai
#87. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.
Holly Holm
#89. There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.
Donald Rooum
#90. Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#91. Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
Jeff Bezos
#92. You want people who are self-starters.
Blum, David
#93. You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
John Cena
#94. For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
Thomas Aquinas
#95. Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.
Joyce Brothers
#96. We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#97. My songs are self-explanatory ... somebody pointed out to me that ... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
Christine McVie
#98. You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.
William Law
#100. What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.
John Avlon
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