Self Quotes

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I leave before being left. I decide.

God has entrusted me with myself.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

All photographs are self-portraits.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

Everything is self-evident.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.