Self Quotes
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.
A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.
Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.
The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you
Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.
To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.
