Self Quotes

It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

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

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

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

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.