Self Quotes
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.
Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.
By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
