Self Quotes

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

No one ever judges their own self.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

Unfortunately [René] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes, he'd say, you know, it might be ruinous for us economically.

If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

The most important part of my mental self-care is knowing who to call for what kinds of help.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.