Top 100 For Self Quotes
#1. When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
to be mourned,
but as an act of citizenship,
to be vaunted,
there is little civilian life left.
Jill Lepore
#2. I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
Oswald J. Smith
#3. Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.
Michael J. Gelb
#4. Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.
Anuj
#5. We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
Susan L. Taylor
#6. I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
Tom Stoppard
#7. Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
Emily Post
#8. People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going.
Anonymous
#9. That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller
#10. Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
Paul David Tripp
#11. That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.
Dale Carnegie
#12. Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
John H. Aughey
#14. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Suzanne Collins
#15. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Maurice Saatchi
#16. The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.
Karmen MacKendrick
#17. Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Carl Sagan
#18. I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.
Patti Smith
#19. Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
Corinne Maier
#20. Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
Irvin D. Yalom
#21. If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait
no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
Stephen Colbert
#22. There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being
Joseph Conrad
#23. The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
Nathaniel Branden
#24. Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
Prince Philip
#25. Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#26. The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I'm not just doing it for self-gain, I'm doing it to help others.
Beau Bokan
#27. Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#28. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#29. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#30. If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Carl Rogers
#31. Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.
Steven Millhauser
#32. Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth.
David J. Schwartz
#33. I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation
he should become identified with it.
Antony Tudor
#34. What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
Martin Buber
#35. The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Albert Bandura
#36. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.
Jimmy Carter
#38. There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.
Conan O'Brien
#39. I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
Ira Glass
#40. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
Erwin McManus
#41. It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
Meghan Daum
#42. One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
Sunday Adelaja
#43. If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#44. Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement.
Susan Sontag
#45. It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake
Antonia Fraser
#46. If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#47. That which is good for all and any one,
For whomsoever- that is good for me ...
What I hold good for self, I should for all.
Only Law Universal is true law.
Zoroaster
#48. The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
Laurence Tribe
#49. One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.
Desmond Tutu
#50. If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I
can live for 3,000,000,000.
Jack Hyles
#51. Our membership in this Church ... should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#52. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.
Meher Baba
#54. As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
Dean Koontz
#55. We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#56. The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler
#57. She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.
Elizabeth Goudge
#59. The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.
Thomas S. Monson
#60. In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#61. Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.
Ibn Warraq
#62. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
Walter J Chantry
#64. A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#65. Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.
Stephen King
#66. You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.
Kate Millett
#67. I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
C.S. Lewis
#68. A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.
Tom Morrison
#69. With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart - this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do beautiful work in the world, and do it well.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#70. Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
Simon Van Booy
#71. Job security is a myth ... it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.
Robert Kiyosaki
#72. Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.
Penney Peirce
#73. Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.
Mathew Tobriner
#74. Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer
#75. I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.
Dennis Lehane
#76. To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
Jim Rohn
#77. Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
Emil Cioran
#78. How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
Robert Galbraith
#79. The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
Chuck Schuldiner
#80. In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#81. Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear.
Marie Clair
#82. You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.
Barbara Marciniak
#84. We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.
Mao Zedong
#85. Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.
David Rolf
#86. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Joseph Brodsky
#87. Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Holly Lisle
#89. All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
Steven Erikson
#90. For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the ideal situation for self, but as to how self may apply itself in its ideal to bring the ideal relationships with others.
Edgar Cayce
#91. National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
Richard Rorty
#92. The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.
Pete Hegseth
#93. All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
Dada Bhagwan
#94. [In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.
John Goodman
#95. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.
John Landgraf
#96. While American roads offer predictable safety, Indian roads compensate by providing unending entertainment, and even some opportunities for self growth. An Indian road is a stage where Life seems to be unabashedly living itself out.
Ajit Harsinghani
#97. Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.
Ben Stewart
#98. I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.
Leonard Cohen
#99. Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
Vironika Tugaleva
#100. Now if you'll excuse me, real life is calling and there's no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
