Self Quotes

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

A form of self-delusion.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.