Self Quotes

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life!

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

We are what we are.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

Kisses were better than potions.