Self Quotes

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Offended self-love never forgives.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

When the prayer becomes the vibration of the mind and self, then we can create a miracle.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.