Self Quotes

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Be the flame, not the moth.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.