Self Quotes

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.

Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

Self-government means self support.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.