Self Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

The words you say to yourself create your self image.

I am content and happy with my situation and like the flexibility that comes with being self-employed. And it's nice to know that I can contribute something to society

Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

When there is Self-con­fidence then there will be love, there will be peace, there will be truth, there will be God.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

If self is a location, so is love.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...

Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.