Self Quotes

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.