Self Quotes

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

All art is self-portraiture.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.