Self Quotes

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.