Self Quotes

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

They only babble who practise not reflection

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that!

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

Music is reflection of self.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.