Self Quotes

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Through adversity we find our better self.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.