Self Quotes

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.

Self improvement is masturbation.

The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.