Self Quotes

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.