Self Quotes
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.