Self Quotes

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

With whomever you feel yourself as if you are with your very self, he or she is surely your true Valentine!

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

Being celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.

Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.

No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

We have power over nothing except our will.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

I find myself fascinating.

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.