Top 100 Self Quality Quotes
#1. The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.
Martin Filler
#2. Writers can write whatever they want, but after THE END, when they self publish their book, they become accountable to readers for the quality of the book they're selling.
Eeva Lancaster
#3. Regenerate people feel through their minds and think through thier feelings. They are self-aware in a God-concious and God-centered way that is beyond the understanding of those who do not not actually share this life quality .
J.I. Packer
#5. I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to ... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
Madonna
#6. Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love ...
Henry Taylor
#7. The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.
Shannon L. Alder
#8. Self-confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. How can anyone see how great you are if you can't see it yourself?
Auliq Ice
#9. I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.
Zack Snyder
#10. The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
George S. Patton
#11. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
Pearl Cleage
#12. One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.
Caroline Myss
#13. This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.
John Viney
#14. You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.
Miguel Ruiz
#15. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
#16. The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Karl Marx
#17. But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9
Will Self
#18. Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.
Venus Williams
#19. The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Orison Swett Marden
#20. Excellence is a high quality, that delivers the gold nugget of success.
Mark LaMoure
#21. People aren't reading self-published authors because people can't even get past the poor quality of the samples. They aren't reading books they don't want to read.
Linda Hilton
#22. Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.
Janny Wurts
#23. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or another, real or imaginary.
Jane Austen
#24. A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.
Robert Ringer
#25. ..If not for the influence of Humans, I would not be Human. Shouldn't it be concerning that the quality of such examples continues to dwindle?
J. Devau
#26. I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
Guy Laliberte
#27. But it is possible to let go of this addiction. Consciousness is power. Once we are aware of ourselves as a separate Presence from our thoughts, we can then witness them and perhaps notice the addictive quality of thinking.
Arielle Hecht
#28. We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
Catherine Ponder
#29. The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content
Hank Quense
#30. In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.
Narendra Modi
#32. Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.
Dalai Lama
#33. Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
John F. Kennedy
#34. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
Chellie Pingree
#36. In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.
Rachel Kushner
#37. If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?
Dada Bhagwan
#38. Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
Alfred Lunt
#39. Take pride in what you do & let the quality of your work be your signature
Kloby
#40. Like the quality of mercy, the prompting of compassion is not finite, and can be self-replenishing.
Christopher Hitchens
#41. The quality of your communication shapes the quality of your life. Every cell in your being aligns with what you declare.
Niurka
#42. If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
Lydia Lunch
#43. Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.
Denis Waitley
#44. If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.
Vladimir Alexandrov
#45. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
Rami M. Shapiro
#46. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.
Amor Towles
#47. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Melody Beattie
#48. A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
Monica Dolan
#49. I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.
Chris Benz
#50. Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
Susan Sontag
#51. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#52. Your level of self-confidence in life is determined by the whole quality of your life".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#53. I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.
Marie Calloway
#54. Excellence in life, is like a play. For your real life play, the quality of the actors you bring on your life's stage, determine your success. Always choose the best, most excellent actors.
Mark LaMoure
#55. We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
David McRaney
#56. In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.
Dada Bhagwan
#57. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
#58. I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
China Mieville
#59. Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Theodore Roosevelt
#61. The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"
which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Frank Herbert
#62. She asks me my worst quality, and I say I can be very self-involved. She says hers is that she gets lost in the world of her work and can't find her way back out again.
Lena Dunham
#63. He had always seen his self-sufficiency as an admirable quality, a way of not imposing upon other people, but he could see now that it was an insult to those close to you.
Mark Haddon
#64. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
Thiruvalluvar
#65. Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
Judith Orloff
#66. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.
Neil Clark Warren
#67. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
Colin Farrell
#68. There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary
Jane Austen
#70. Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.
David Nicholls
#71. All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.
Louise Hay
#72. Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.
Joyce Carol Oates
#73. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#74. I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
Joyce Carol Oates
#75. The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#76. Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it.
Tim Crawshaw
#78. Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.
Sandra Dallas
#79. Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.
John Caples
#80. Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#81. Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#82. You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.
Dawn Gluskin
#83. I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
Kristen Stewart
#84. For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.
Sidney Greenberg
#85. A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.
James Webb Young
#86. These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it ... it's just dumb.
Moby
#87. How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.
Stephanie Dowrick
#88. Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.
Ayn Rand
#89. A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
John Gray
#90. 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
#91. Only a person who has already developed life within himself will be able to extend a quality life to somebody else
Sunday Adelaja
#92. Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.
Pema Chodron
#93. Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!
Rossana Condoleo
#94. There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.
Ted Leeson
#95. Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.
Toni Sorenson
#97. Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.
R. Alan Woods
#98. What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense.
Jane Green
#99. The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#100. Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.
Michael Beckwith
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