Self Quotes

No one can keep you down except yourself.

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

The greatest victory is over self.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.