Self Quotes

If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract.

Can't get away from your own self.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

Who you are is always right.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Never underestimate yourself

If you think you are powerless, then you are

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Tis the ignorant who boast.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.