Quotes About Self

#1. I had been resigned to the consolation of man's best friend, i.e., self-pleasure, and certainly did not possess the wherewithal to consort with prostitutes.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#2. Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

Heath Ledger

#4. If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

N. T. Wright

#5. Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.

Mooji

#6. I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked ... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.

Francesco Clemente

#7. Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.

Chet Williamson

#8. Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.

Greil Marcus

#9. The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth ...

Petra Kelly

#10. Politics and self-interest should never stand in the way of finding the truth.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. It is said that the senses are great; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind is the intelligence; but what is greater than the intelligence, is the real Self.

Amit Kulshreshtha

#14. Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

Hillary Clinton

#15. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

John Galt

#16. The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Evgeny Morozov

#17. When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Ronald Reagan

#18. For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.

Aristotle.

#19. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#20. Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

Susan Juby

#21. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Ellen G. White

#22. How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity. (10:43.)

Jane Roberts

#23. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Dave Barry

#24. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Debbie Ford

#25. Fake Self-Actualization Loophole: Often, a loophole is disguised as an embrace of life or an acceptance of self, so that the failure to pursue a habit seems life-affirming - almost spiritual.

Gretchen Rubin

#26. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

Ryan Lilly

#27. Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Doris Lessing

#28. The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Joseph Butler

#29. Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.

Sam Owen

#30. This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist - and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

Terry McDonell

#31. Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith

#33. The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

#34. One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Nathaniel Branden

#35. It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self ... I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.

Alexander Fleming

#36. Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self
with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.

Henry James

#37. If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Francis Ford Coppola

#38. Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

Victoria Moran

#39. You can't belittle a person in one breath and then expect them to grow self-respect and self-reliance with the next.

Tim Greaton

#40. Self esteem and depression go hand in hand. They are directly proportionate to each other and if there is variation in one then there will be a variation in the other one as well.

James Heard

#41. It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

Henry James

#42. Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Anton Du Beke

#43. Knowledge is king, a dream is his queen, and self destruction is his mistress.

Noel DeJesus

#44. I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#45. The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

Mark Epstein

#46. To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

Neale Donald Walsch

#47. How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

Stefanie Schneider

#48. Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It's evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.

Penny Reid

#49. When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Matthew Fox

#50. Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

Darcey Steinke

#51. It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Lorii Myers

#52. No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Martha Beck

#53. First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

Thubten Yeshe

#54. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

Humberto Maturana

#55. Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Ambrose Bierce

#56. I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Chuck Palahniuk

#57. I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

Jil Sander

#58. We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

David Whyte

#59. Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

Watchman Nee

#60. The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

A.J. Darkholme

#61. With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Azar Nafisi

#62. it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.

Roland Merullo

#63. I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Hugo Weaving

#64. Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization." "If it were an Olympic sport, I'd medal.

Tiffany Reisz

#65. Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not

Marcus Garvey

#66. Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage

Terry Pratchett

#67. When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community
the all-important web of meaning we spin around each other
the inescapable context within which anything truly human has taken place.

Cacilda Jetha

#68. When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

Gerry Spence

#69. we are highly invested in feeling different from one another - and superior - no matter how flimsy the grounds for our sense of superiority, and no matter how self-sabotaging that may end up being. You

Leonard Mlodinow

#70. Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Sidney Jourard

#71. The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#72. The Soul's doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].

Dada Bhagwan

#73. I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

Adam Levine

#74. That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable ... but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

John R. Rickford

#75. Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#76. Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited.

Shireen Dodson

#77. Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Aeschylus

#78. Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don't crush them, it's pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.

Pega Rose

#79. I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

David Lynch

#80. It's all about self-satisfaction, doesn't matter how hard you try, you can't do it, theirs no way you can change the world.

Lelouch Vi Britannia

#81. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

Don Coppersmith

#82. I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

Mary J. Blige

#83. I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

#84. Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.

Charles Dickens

#85. I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .
Osman Gulum

Osman Gulum

#86. The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. A firm science like chemistry, maybe.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#87. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,

N.D. Wilson

#88. Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

#89. Boredom is the fear of self.

Marie Josephine De Suin

#90. Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

Jack London

#91. I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Jackie Mason

#92. Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise.

Maddy Malhotra

#93. I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

Norman Mailer

#94. Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#95. I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

Richard Eyre

#96. All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Edna O'Brien

#97. We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Julia Cameron

#98. The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

William Faulkner

#99. Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

Evan D.G. Fraser

#100. Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Mason Cooley