Self Quotes

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

I'm single because I was born that way.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.