Self Quotes

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.