Self Quotes

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

I had a lot of self-confidence.

Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

You cannot hide your true self forever.

I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.

Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

You should never give up your inner self.

Self-realization is great.

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Six senses keeping Five around a sense of self

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

Whatever your religion is, it's to fully realize your potential of love. Is to have fully realized self love then you can give love to others around you and to whatever, whoever you meet.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.