Self Quotes

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

The square root of I is I.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

True self-love and social are the same.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.