Self Quotes
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.
And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious. Any actor who takes themselves seriously just needs to stop being such a piece of s**t.
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.
Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what happens with guys.
All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual