Self Quotes

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Everything is practice.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.