Self Quotes

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.