Self Quotes

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.