Self Quotes

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

I have no home but me.

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

A better you means a better universe.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.