Quotes About Core Self

#1. Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.

C.D. Reiss

#3. I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

Peter Shepherd

#4. To really know who you are, your core self, you need to know who you are pretending to be and who you are not, and the way to heal is the same way to grow in awareness.

Aleta Edwards

#5. Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn't something Bess would normally succumb to, but things in the past few months had fallen apart, and there was no one there to help pick up the pieces.

Inger Iversen

#6. Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

Martha Beck

#7. Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Michael Beckwith

#8. Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#9. Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

Jane Siberry

#10. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.

Ernest Becker

#11. LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

Alexa Von Tobel

#12. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...

Lauren Mackler

#13. The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

#14. Accept me for who iam or leave me the the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i real am has no settings

Morgan Chabane

#15. Cutting through layers,this labor like cutting through the illusion of self to find there was no core, only the layers.

David Vann

#16. The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Joyce Brothers

#18. What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?

Laurie Viera Rigler

#19. Honour your core sexual values and express them directly

Miya Yamanouchi

#20. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity ... one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#21. If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

Germaine Greer

#22. Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

Simon Mainwaring

#23. Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

Sylvia Plath

#24. Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one's inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one's daily actions.

Bill Jensen

#25. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#26. At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

Amit Ray

#27. Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles; when you encounter that moment where every decision is a tough one and no choice seems to clearly be the better choice.

J. Loren Norris

#28. Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

#29. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.

William Fulton

#30. I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Lizz Winstead

#31. Self-acceptance isn't the beginning of happiness; it's at the core of peaceful and happy living.

K.J. Kilton

#32. Modern conservatives are for the most part engaged in conserving only older rather than later versions of liberal individualism. Their own core doctrine is as liberal and as individualist as that of self-avowed liberals.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#33. Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Will Self

#34. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

Erich Fromm

#35. Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

Robert H. Schuller

#36. At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Francis

#37. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.

Julieanne O'Connor

#38. Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

Brian Tracy

#39. Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

James E. Loehr

#40. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Louis Sullivan

#41. To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.

Terry Eagleton

#42. Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Barbara Ascher

#43. His core business still is self-promotion.

Joe Nocera

#44. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

Bell Hooks

#45. Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#46. The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

Robertson Davies

#47. It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

George Eliot

#48. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.

Marian Deegan

#49. 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

#50. Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#51. How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? ... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

Anais Nin

#52. When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Tara Brach

#53. But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

Mark Tobey

#54. Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

Linda Lingle

#55. Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

Clay Shirky

#56. History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Buzz Aldrin

#57. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Vironika Tugaleva

#58. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Rogers

#59. 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

#60. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

Gary Zukav

#61. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Charles Duhigg

#62. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

James E. Faust

#63. Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

Morgan Chabane

#64. At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

Ilona Andrews

#65. I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Jenna Fischer

#66. Love is not compromising your core values for someone else's. Love brings up your Highest Self.

Cloris Kylie

#67. This inner Being is all powerful, intelligent, indestructible and a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom. This inner core is truly who and what you are and is perpetually trying to connect with your outward self.

Stephen Richards

#68. True happiness starts in the core of our true selves as a constant, a guidepost, a default, and a strength that shines from the inside out.

Elaina Marie

#69. Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

Kamal Ravikant

#70. Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.

Stephen Richards

#71. I will live this life the only way I know how. With love at its core. With love in my heart.

E. Katherine Kottaras

#72. With women, the way they look ... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Nia Peeples

#73. The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way out things like self justification, rationalization, delusions and denial which keeps us away from our true self, the inner core and thus we live contented

Anubhav Mishra

#74. You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Steve Backley

#75. The only 'right path' for you is the one that stems deeply from the core of your true self. The only 'wrong' path for you is one that is not in alignment or acting in honor of your true self.

Elaina Marie

#76. The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Martha MacCullough

#77. My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

John Spence

#78. Our enemy within are our Core Negative Beliefs. Negative beliefs hide from the Consciousness and they get exposed by the Magic of Mindfulness and Awareness. Explore Your Core Beliefs, Challenge Existing, Train Mindfulness, Understand Beauty, Work with Emptiness, Meditate

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#79. How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#80. You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#81. I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It's a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.

Thornton Willis

#82. Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

Deepak Chopra