Self Quotes

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.