Top 100 Greatest Self Quotes
#1. Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
Joseph Stowell
#2. Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.
Steve Maraboli
#5. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
Steve Maraboli
#6. You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.
Steve Maraboli
#7. The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.
Steve Maraboli
#8. The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
Bryant McGill
#9. Do you deny it? Grimani persisted.
Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.
Kate Ross
#10. I think that Mama June has the greatest self-esteem on the planet. I always say to people, 'If I had her self-worth, I would probably be ruling the world.'
Blake McIver Ewing
#11. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#12. The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It's right up there with the ridiculous notion that money can't buy happiness and size doesn't matter.
J.T. Geissinger
#14. Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.
Steve Maraboli
#16. Sports Jerseys: To wear another man's name on your back is a subconscious slap in the face to who you are. Don't fantasize about being someone else. Put in the work required to rise to the level of your greatest self.
Steve Maraboli
#17. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. It's often in your deepest misery that brings out your greatest self
Thabiso Monkoe
#21. We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.
Debbie Ford
#22. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#23. The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.
Marie Cornelio
#24. The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Mahavira
#27. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
Rick Riordan
#28. Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#29. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
#30. You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.
Maxwell Maltz
#31. You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.
Chris Prentiss
#33. The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#34. Get in the habit of speaking positive, faith-filled words over your life, because a healthy self-image is one of the greatest assets you can have. It will not only cause you to rise higher, but it will inspire others around you to live at their best.
Victoria Osteen
#35. The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.
Francois Fenelon
#36. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#37. People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.
Roy Baumeister
#38. Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
Brian Tracy
#39. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Henri Nouwen
#40. The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#41. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#42. There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
Thomas Brooks
#43. The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#44. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#45. Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#47. Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Katey Sagal
#50. Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting
that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.
MaryAnn F. Kohl
#52. One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#53. At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.
Bear Grylls
#55. The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.
Maxwell Maltz
#56. Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
James Richardson
#57. Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. To love one's self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.
T. Scott McLeod
#59. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.
Michael Foley
#60. Though you might conquer in battle
A thousand times a thousand men,
You're the greatest battle-winner
If you conquer just one - yourself.
Anonymous
#63. Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
Thomas Paine
#64. The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.
Neale Donald Walsch
#66. The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
Nathaniel Branden
#67. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#68. Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
Tariq Ramadan
#71. I wish you'd let go and be with me," she whispered against the fingers that brushed against her lips. "You wouldn't have to worry about self-control then."
"Eleanor, the first night we make love will be the greatest test of my self-control.
Tiffany Reisz
#72. The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.
Auliq Ice
#73. Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.
Desmond Tutu
#75. We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
Joko Beck
#76. At the core of love is a self-sacrificing pursuit of the beloved's greatest good. Love saves. Love rescues. Love helps. And it does so, if necessary, at cost to the lover.
Anonymous
#77. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Ian McEwan
#78. The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard
Gary Hopkins
#79. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
Henry Ford
#83. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.
James Marcus Bach
#84. If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
Antoine R. Ivins
#85. I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
John Galsworthy
#86. Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.
Richard Thaler
#87. Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one's own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.
Alan W. Watts
#90. When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realize
that the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the idea
that there is a 'right' choice.
Story Waters
#92. Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
Epicurus
#94. The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
Gary Hopkins
#95. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
#96. The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .
Jim Rohn
#98. The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have so much to learn from one another, and we often let self-imposed barriers keep us from enjoying associations which could be among the greatest blessings in our lives.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
