Self Quotes

I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.

As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

A high quality life starts with a high quality you!

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

Donald's Trump entire campaign is a self-troll. It's very meta.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

The body creates health daily. It is inherently self-healing.

I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

I think the most important practice is to be authentic with our human selves.

The Pleiadians said that at a certain moment in the future, when we go through our transformation, the Earth plane will shift back to its original pristine self.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.