On Self Quotes

#1. You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way.

Joseph Hansen

#2. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Winston Churchill

#3. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Pearsall is not a doctor, or not, at least, one of the medical variety. He is a doctor of the variety that gets a Ph.D. and attaches it to his name on self-help book covers.

Mary Roach

#5. Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

Matthew Kelly

#6. Start dream building. Raise your standards to excellence. Imagine yourself at your best and work on self-improvement. Transform yourself to a higher state of being, by concentrating on becoming excellent at what you want.

Mark LaMoure

#7. Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

Oswald Chambers

#8. All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.

Bryant McGill

#9. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Lee Gutkind

#11. Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Daniel Dumile

#12. 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

#13. I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

Jami Floyd

#14. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Wordsworth

#15. When ppl say they got ur back. Is like saying I'll pray for u. They don't actually do it. It just sounds good at the moment. Depend on self.

J. Wrice Sr.

#16. What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#17. Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich

#18. This was a man who'd fought long and hard to keep me, even when I was bent on self-destructing us. This was a man who understood I could be difficult and stubborn and a little bit irrational (okay, maybe a freaking lot irrational), and still loved me.

Samantha Young

#19. Love is always based on self-interest

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Timothy Keller

#21. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Amy Poehler

#22. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#23. We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

Nancy Jo Sales

#24. When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.

Nacie Carson

#25. I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#26. You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Meghan Daum

#28. Sir Alric is big on self-motivation, initiative, that kind of guff.

Gabriella Poole

#29. I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

Melanie Brown

#30. To be a Christian is to be a theologian - a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be nurtured in the practice of correct theology. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

R.C. Sproul

#31. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Morrie Schwartz.

#32. Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.

Sebastian Thrun

#33. Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

Stephen Covey

#34. I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

Peter Hollingworth

#35. Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.

John C. Broger

#36. Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more
also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

Andrea Dworkin

#37. Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Paul Wellstone

#38. One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

Ezra Taft Benson

#39. A final word on self-criticism: Do not beat up on yourself. Even if you think you know your flaws, there is no need to advertise them. Most people won't have noticed.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#40. Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

Betty Dodson

#41. Prayer that focuses on self is always hypocritical because every true prayer focuses on God.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#42. If you are low on self confidence and your life sucks, become a vegetarian. You will nag on other human beings and hate them so much for abusing animals that you would have no free time to remember how miserable your own life is!

Hamidreza Bagheri

#43. A demand on self to add value is a kind of pressure that causes increase

Sunday Adelaja

#44. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion to company are not symptoms of autism but consequences of autism, its harsh lockdown on self-expression and society's near-pristine ignorance about what's happening inside autistic heads.

Naoki Higashida

#45. Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

Amit Ray

#46. Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Jimmy Buffett

#47. No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle

Leo Tolstoy

#48. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic

Morris Berman

#49. I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

Jorge Luis Borges

#50. Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Marc Andreesen

#51. [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Albert Bandura

#52. Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty ... if people were going to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust ... If you live there you have to take it as a whole. That's loyalty.

Garrison Keillor

#53. Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

Steve Erickson

#54. Your life changes, when you focus on self-love, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Only your opinions of self love matter. Respect yourself.

Auliq Ice

#55. Chloe narrowed her eyes. "Americans are all the same. Arrogant, self-entitled trash. You are evidently no exception." She looked away. "Huh, and here I assumed you had the corner on self-entitlement. Then again, I guess it complements that elitist attitude you've got going on.

Emily Albright

#56. Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

E. J. Gold

#57. Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Edith Hamilton

#58. The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

Marianne Williamson

#59. When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#60. We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.

Rick Joyner

#61. You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Samantha Morton

#62. Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

John Fante

#63. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

#64. The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.

Billy Graham

#65. If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on you by the society

Sunday Adelaja

#66. If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.

Vironika Tugaleva

#67. I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.

Charlaine Harris

#68. A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction

Michael Chabon

#69. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius

#70. Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come.
- On Self-Reflection -

Kentetsu Takamori

#71. Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

Tim Cook

#72. Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

Frederic Bastiat

#73. The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

D. A. Carson

#74. Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.

Ayn Rand

#75. Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#76. A marriage based not on self-denial but on self-fulfillment will require a low- or no-maintenance partner who meets your needs while making almost no claims on you. Simply put - today people are asking far too much in the marriage partner.

Timothy J. Keller

#77. Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

William Sloane Coffin

#78. It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

Nick Baylis

#79. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Robert A. Heinlein

#80. Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

Charles Eisenstein

#81. Major theme of the book [ Hotels of North America], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Rick Moody

#82. purgation deals essentially with our "trust structures," especially those deep inner postures of our being that do not rely on God but on self for our well-being.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#83. I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Michael C. Hall

#84. She learned the same lesson I had learned though - if someone is hell-bent on self-destruction, there isn't a lot you can do to change their mind.

Mia Sheridan

#85. Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.

Frederick Nymeyer

#86. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

Lev Grossman

#87. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.

Astro Teller

#88. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

#89. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

#90. Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.

Ilchi Lee

#91. In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

Wayne Dyer

#92. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Stephen Richards

#93. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.

Brian Tracy

#94. I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

Barry Goldwater

#95. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

Amy Irving

#96. Infinite possibilities exist but we only focus on a small subset, filtering most of it out with our Beliefs.

Debbianne DeRose

#97. The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

William Golding

#98. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#99. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.

Heather Stang

#100. For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Benjamin Franklin