Self Quotes

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.