Self Quotes

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.