Top 100 Personal Self Quotes

#1. When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Tanya R. Liverman

#2. 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

#3. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

Aloe Blacc

#4. Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly

Matthew Donnelly

#5. 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

#6. Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self

Rosemarie Yusen

#7. Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn

#8. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

Evita Ochel

#9. Enlightenment is when there is no personal self, only the Creative Self, which is universal and impersonal in nature. It is when the personal self or personality is no longer the point of reference, but rather it becomes a tool to realize the True Self and to do its Creative Will.

David Cherubim

#10. Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.

Will Tuttle

#11. I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.

Lionel Suggs

#12. Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

Silas L. Copeland

#14. An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.

Johnny Reid

#15. Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change

Renae A. Sauter

#17. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

#18. Once your heart overflows with love, another heart will follow. And so it goes.

Yeshua: One Hundred Meaningful Messages for Messengers

Janet G. Nestor

#19. Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.

Anthony Marais

#20. Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.

Bob Proctor

#21. Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights

Balroop Singh

#22. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

Kaiden Blake

#23. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.

Michael Hyatt

#24. Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives.

Matthew Donnelly

#25. I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Gretchen Rubin

#26. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.

Miya Yamanouchi

#27. I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Marianne Faithfull

#28. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#29. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#30. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

Keanu Reeves

#31. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.

Michael Hyatt

#32. 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

#33. Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

Matt Kindt

#34. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Kemmons Wilson

#35. Life's struggles are necessary for growth.

Auliq Ice

#36. Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way.

Staci Backauskas

#37. The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.

Roshan Sharma

#38. Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Henry Wriston

#39. Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.

Fennel Hudson

#40. A man who reads will find himself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Know your worth so you know when to say, "Yes", and when to say, "Thank you but no thank you.

Sam Owen

#42. The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?

Steven Pressfield

#43. Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for
self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

Gustave Le Bon

#44. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#45. Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens

Renae A. Sauter

#46. IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET

Mo Stegall

#47. Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles' heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#48. Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

Annie Besant

#49. Compassion is the religion of the heart.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#50. Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.

Renae A. Sauter

#51. Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.

Sam Owen

#52. Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.

Deborah Sandella

#53. Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

Douglas Adams

#54. How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.

Sam Owen

#55. We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

Steven Pressfield

#56. Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#57. No self-respecting cat wants to have its subtle personal odor masked by overtones of lavender or rose petals.

Nicholas Dodman

#58. Reading leads to good character development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

Spencer W. Kimball

#60. You are a soul. You are a creator. You are an individual, absolutely and positively one of a kind. You are an energetic being of love with enough power inside of you to change this entire world forever.

Stephen Lovegrove

#61. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe

Mike Dooley

#62. Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

Thomas Keating

#63. Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Stephen Covey

#64. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Naomi Wolf

#65. We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Stacy London

#66. A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life.

Stephen Lovegrove

#67. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#68. Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.

Lori Cash Richards

#69. All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition.

Bob Proctor

#70. Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things.

Renae A. Sauter

#71. True sacrifice is merely self-control.

David W. Stevens

#72. Note To Self!
I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!

Allan Rufus

#73. Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

Margaret Walters

#74. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Renae A. Sauter

#75. To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish.

Beverly K. Bachel

#76. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

#77. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#78. It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#79. Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.

Jean Kilbourne

#80. Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return therefore, everything that you want is already yours. It is simply becoming more aware of what you already possess.

Bob Proctor

#81. It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Ayn Rand

#82. And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.

Aldous Huxley

#83. Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.

Bob Proctor

#84. Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#85. Embrace the moment, your life will be whatever you want to make of it. Be inspired to do great works. You aren't finished yet. Go for your goals!

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#86. If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

Matthew Donnelly

#87. Flourishing is the heart of prospering - engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

Edmund S. Phelps

#88. Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

William Raspberry

#89. There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible.

Dean Koontz

#90. If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

Matthew Donnelly

#91. Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

Nathan W. Morris

#92. You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem

Renae A. Sauter

#93. The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Brian Tracy

#95. The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#96. We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#97. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#98. Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

James Fox

#100. If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation

Renae A. Sauter

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